Ideas on video capture or creation?

[gigemboy]

How would one create video files in .NET? Is there a relatively simple way? Any magical class library out there that allows you to capture images at a certain interval, then combine them into some popular video format? Any ways to capture streaming video from, say, a webcam? I have still images down pat, already made a couple different progs with that. Now looking for ideas on how to go about capturing actual video....

All that I have searched have brought be to DirectX, with DirectShow. Is there a different way? Every DirectX SDK I seem to download has everything but DirectShow (and with dialup, usually, when I say "Download" I mean, "installed it from a cd with the files downloaded by a friend on it" ). Im all up for suggestions. Any ideas, however odd, plausible, or inplausible will be greatly appreciated

[Phill64]

well, you can use bltbit to capture the screen image.. as for saving to a video format here is something i found http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/st...&select=649524

[gigemboy]

Excellent Phil! Looks promising. When I get around to it I will try out the AVIWriter class in that link.

Anyone else have anything else they can add?? Any other methods? I have seen very few examples of video capture/creating for .NET, and would like to get something done. I plan on setting up a little sample project and adding it to the codebank if I can get something working...

[Chris H]

Any update to this? I have a video server that uploads jpeg image captures via FTP when it detects motion on a security camera. I'd like to convert those images into a video, for easier viewing later on. The format doesn't really matter.