MediaHost (TM) wrote:
However, is there any development going on
concerning v4l and/or USB?
Actually it's a pity, that I couldn't realize this
project....we would
have been willing to invest in such code....
I'm not sure what the capabilities of video4linux
are, >which devices it
supports or how its API works. I know it supports at least some USB webcams.
Actually video4linux has quite some capabilities, a program like xawtv for example can even grab a movie from your tv-tuner card.
As we can access /dev/usb/lpt or /dev/dsp, it
should >>be possible to access /dev/video....I'm not familiar >>in implementing such stuff at wine, but....?
Altough I'm a programming noob i tried a few weeks ago to write some code to accomplish this with (not much) but still a little succes: i used code from a program like vidcat to read a frame from my v4l device (in png format), used code from another program (png2bmp) to turn it into a bitmap, and used CreateWindowEx to display this in a windowsprogram under wine. Although the window with the frame from my webcam showed up , the windowsprogram did not behave further as it should do. There is plenty of code to be found on the internet using the v4l api, but the problem how to get this in wine. Maybe someone has some further hints? Regards luis
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