A stupid newbie's question: can SDL capture video from web cam in different platforms?

SDL Development
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Hi,
I’m really a newbie to SDL. What I want to do is to write an application
to capture video from web camera both in Linux and windows. Does SDL help to
unify these kinds of operation? If SDL does, I can use it freely instead of
writing two set of codes to handle the same situation.

Any answer is welcome, thanks in advance!–

Yueyu Lin

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I’m really a newbie to SDL. What I want to do is to write an
application to capture video from web camera both in Linux and windows.
Does SDL help to unify these kinds of operation? If SDL does, I can use
it freely instead of writing two set of codes to handle the same situation.

Video capture isn’t available in the SDL API.

I think there was some talk of adding it to SDL 1.3, but no one has.

–ryan.

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Well, if it helps encourage folks, a video capture API would no doubt be
useful to tens of thousands of little Tux Paint users. ;^)On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:22:55AM -0400, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

Video capture isn’t available in the SDL API.

I think there was some talk of adding it to SDL 1.3, but no one has.

–
-bill!
bill at newbreedsoftware.com
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/

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Well, if it helps encourage folks, a video capture API would no doubt be
useful to tens of thousands of little Tux Paint users. ;^)

I think that’s “SDL’s law” … all API enhancements are made in the
name of Tux Paint. :slight_smile:

–ryan.