How do take an input from a webcamera using c program?

Question

I was wondering if you take an input from the camera using c program. I use Turbo C, windows xp. I just know the basics of c program, it would be helpful you could describe how one could do this. Thanks in advance. If any clarifications please let me know. Thanks again.

Answer 1

You can use Window's AVICAP:

• link to the DLL AVICAP32.DLL

• call capCreateCaptureWindow

• send messages to it using SendMessage()

Take a look here:

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/gm/multimedia/video/article.php/c1601