Re: Webcams for vision; classes that support up to 5 cams?

You can try MS DirectShow, or this newsgroup:
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.video

A brief, but quite easy, explanation about DShow is:
http://www.flipcode.com/articles/article_directshow01.shtml

You just need to download the DirectX9 SDK, and play with the GraphEdit
tool.

Good luck
Antonio



"davidd31415" <davidd31415@xxxxxxxxx> escribió en el mensaje
news:1127175545.794179.270040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a webcam that will run under Windows that has
> programming classes (any language C++, VB, Delphi, etc) that support up
> to 5 simultaneous webcam connections. I will not need to acquire data
> from each webcam simultaneously but I will need to be able to switch
> between the cameras.
>
> The programming classes for the Logitech cameras I have looked at are
> no longer being supported unfortunately. I may be able to get the job
> done with those, but if anyone knows of something more suited for this,
> please fill me in.
>
> As far as image processing goes, I need to find x/y coordinates of a
> dot (laser light pointer) on a vertical plane. I have briefly looked
> at LabVIEW's vision packages, but if routines are available such that I
> can put this together in VC++ or similar I would much rather go that
> route.
>
> Thanks for any information.
>
> David
>


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