Question

I am trying to create an application to capture a snapshot using a webcam.

I have been able to accomplish this using WIA, but this solution becomes unstable when ran on Windows 7 with a camera that has a resolution of more than 1.3 megapixels. We are coding for a tablet computer that has a built in webcam with 2.0 megapixels.

I am not opposed to using direct show, but I would like to stay away from .net.

I have searched high and low for a solution and I can not get the directshow examples from the windows platform sdk or directx 9.0 to even compile on Visual Studio 6.0. I have also had no luck OpenCV.

Is there anyone that could point me in the direction of a tutorial that might get me started down the right path?

Thanks

Answer 1

The simplest way is videoinput lib that wraps directshow, it’s the same lib used by openCV.

If that isn’t good enough then the AMCAP sample in the multimedia/directshow dir of the Microsoft SDK shows how to run a camera in directshow

ps. as Hans said you should update the compiler,VC++6 is little old. There is a free version of their latest vs2010.