I don't have a Win8 test system set up but I would expect it to work there with no problems.
However these programs are only able to handle some generic cases so finding webcams that won't work is very likely. These sample programs are probably best treated as
examples of how you can use DirectShow in VB6 programs.
DirectShow covers a large set of multimedia operations through "building blocks" and your programs need to "assemble" several blocks together to "spell a word" (to stretch an alphabet-block analogy). These programs are making assumptions about the "block" at the beginning and the "block" at the end and try to assemble the necessary "blocks" to span the gap between them.
It is a little more complicated even than that makes it sound. Every "block" can have zero to many inputs and zero to many outputs, and your program needs to string the blocks together by joining the right outputs to the right inputs.
Your capture device (camera) may not have the particular output "pin" as they're called that my programs here expect. Or it might have the right output pin, but it may require another intermediate filter block to transform its output data stream.
To handle things truly generically (to write a "universal" program) you'll probably need to understand the process better than I do, you'll need more complicated code, and it may not even be possible in VB6 since only a few items are made available in a form easily used in VB6. The FSFShow wrapper helps, but may not make enough of DirectShow available to do the entire job.
If you have the Windows SDK you'll find that the old DirectShow SDK has been merged into it. This gives you a tool to play with called
graphedt.exe ("GraphEdit"):
This might give you something to experiment with so you can improve what I have tried to do in these sample programs.
Of course translating from there to a VB6 program can be tricky, and it will require that you study the DirectShow documentation in some detail. But perhaps my sample programs and the FSFWrap author's samples will help get you there.
Originally Posted by dilettante
I don't have a Win8 test system set up but I would expect it to work there with no problems.
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