Question

I am looking for a way to use my webcam in delphi, primary for grabbing a picture, by some reason I cannot use TWAIN drivers.

Answer 1

Try these resources

DSPack

DSPack is a set of Components and class to write Multimedia Applications using MS Direct Show and DirectX technologies. DSPack 2.3 is designed to work with DirectX 9 on Win9X, ME, 2000, and Windows XP operating systems using Delphi 5,6,7 and BCB6.

or

capCreateCaptureWindow function ^{(sample code)}

The capCreateCaptureWindow function creates a capture window.

Syntax
C++

HWND VFWAPI capCreateCaptureWindow(
  LPCTSTR lpszWindowName,
  DWORD dwStyle,
  int x,
  int y,
  int nWidth,
  int nHeight,
  HWND hWnd,
  int nID
);