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I’m looking into the feasibility of taking a video stream from a network device (IP camera) and somehow creating/ registering a software local device from the stream of bitmaps that I can then access from other applications (like in skype/ msn etc to select a local webcam device for video chat). Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I’m hoping to be able to do it in c#.
If your question’s ‘Is Windows and C# as flexible as Linux “/dev”, where “everything’s a file”?’… the answer is “No.”.
If your question is “can I create a “virtual camera device and use it with Skype or MSN: the answer’s “Yes”.
You’ll probably have to get your hands dirty with DirectShow and/or the Windows DDK. Look here:
Addendum :
You’ll also probably have to venture outside of .Net (and C#) and do some C/C++ work…