Re: Accessing a camrea

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Hi James,

I've tried the avicap32.dll method as detailed in the artical in your link,
but it does not work on my sony usb camera. I want a solution that works for
all usb video camera's that the system recognises.
The only one which seems to work is the DirectShow method. But, as I've
mentioned, there seems to be a few posts suggesting that DirectShow may be
on its way out.

I don't want to develop an app that will be out of date when vista arrives!

A bit stuck at the moment....

JJ

"james" <jjames700REMOVEME@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think he is talking about a USB VIDEO camera. Much different than seeing
the contents of the CF card in your
Nikon or Casio. In the case of a video camera, he needs to access the
video stream.
Here's a sample project by Ken Tucker:

http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_video_capture.html




james




<zacks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Both of my digital cameras, a Nikon D70s and a Casio EX-S500, but
appear as disk drives when I plug them in to an XP based PC. So a
simple drag and drop will copy the photo files to my hard drive. So it
stands to reason that any class/method that accessed folders and files
should be able to access photo files in a USB connected digital camera.





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