WebCam Image Capture

[Aspnot]

I am looking for some guidance... I am trying to setup some code to take a photo from a webcam into an app I am working on. I have seen a number of examples all around the web using various methods. (advapi32, DirectShow, etc.)

- What is the most current method for taking an image from a webcam and populating a picturebox? Is DirectShow still the most current?

DirectShow appears to be fairly elaborate and there are a number of wrappers out there available. I found a few nice ones. However, all of the ones that I found have licensing requirements if I use their product in a commercial product. (This isn't really a product I will sell to the mass markets, but I am being paid to write this app for a client. To me, that makes it commercial.)

- Is there a good 100% open source wrapper that uses the latest technology?

Thanks in advance for your time and assistance!

[paulg4ije]

Have you looked at Aforge?

http://www.aforgenet.com/framework/

Webcam support works very nicely. I have only used it in personal projects so I haven't read all the small print ;-)

[Aspnot]

I had looked at that one. It uses the LGPL license model. I have read over the licensing a number of times and it appears that I can use it if I include a number of things with the software when I push it out. I don't know that I really want to do that. However, it is free to use.

[robertx]

I use Dynamsoft's webcam component which is a DirectShow wrapper. The SDK samples are user-friendly and the support is excellent.

http://www.dynamsoft.com/Products/.N...irectShow.aspx