Well, my interests have once again focused on capturing video from an attached camera.
I've previously used VFW, which is very clunky and hard to use when more than 1 camera is attached. It just can't see some cameras.
I've had someone build me a C# app using AForge, written so that I can control it from my own PowerBASIC app. It works, but just doesn't have as clean an interface and isn't as responsive as I'd like.
I've done a similar thing with ffmpeg - create a window that I control from a PowerBASIC app. The whole idea of another window, controlled by my PowerBASIC app, works but never seems to give a well-integrated look.
My web search often turns up a number of .NET approaches, none of which help me out with viewing the camera in a PowerBASIC app.
Terminology from my searching ...
VFW
MediaCapture
CameraCaptureUI
LaunchURIAsync
WIA
DirectShow
OpenCV
AForge
HTML5 getUserMedia
Win10 Camera app
ffmpeg
LibVLC
Mlultimedia Streaming
VIdeoLAN (VLC)
I guess of all that I've read, DirectShow seems to be the most compatible with PowerBASIC but also widely disparaged as poorly documented and as having a steep learning curve.
I'm pretty sure that I've spoken via PM (a few years back) about DirectShow to someone here on the forum, but I don't see any examples to help me get started.
If anyone has guidance to offer please speak up!
I've previously used VFW, which is very clunky and hard to use when more than 1 camera is attached. It just can't see some cameras.
I've had someone build me a C# app using AForge, written so that I can control it from my own PowerBASIC app. It works, but just doesn't have as clean an interface and isn't as responsive as I'd like.
I've done a similar thing with ffmpeg - create a window that I control from a PowerBASIC app. The whole idea of another window, controlled by my PowerBASIC app, works but never seems to give a well-integrated look.
My web search often turns up a number of .NET approaches, none of which help me out with viewing the camera in a PowerBASIC app.
Terminology from my searching ...
VFW
MediaCapture
CameraCaptureUI
LaunchURIAsync
WIA
DirectShow
OpenCV
AForge
HTML5 getUserMedia
Win10 Camera app
ffmpeg
LibVLC
Mlultimedia Streaming
VIdeoLAN (VLC)
I guess of all that I've read, DirectShow seems to be the most compatible with PowerBASIC but also widely disparaged as poorly documented and as having a steep learning curve.
I'm pretty sure that I've spoken via PM (a few years back) about DirectShow to someone here on the forum, but I don't see any examples to help me get started.
If anyone has guidance to offer please speak up!
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