Teach Your Old Web Cam New Tricks: Use Video Captures in Your .NET Applications
Just when you thought there wasn't anything new that you could do with a webcam, along comes this article, which shows you how to exploit the AVICap Windows class so you can integrate on-demand screen captures into your applications.
by Wei-Meng Lee
January 23, 2006
oday, a webcam is a common peripheral, used most often for video conferencing, that most people can easily afford. But what can you do with your webcam besides video conferencing? If you are a developer, the answer is plenty; you will be glad to know that integrating a webcam with an application is not as difficult as you might imagine.
Using the AVICap window class available in the Windows operating system, you can easily incorporate video capture capabilities into your Windows application. The uses of this functionality are endless but in particular you can easily populate employee and other person databases with mug shots taken directly from the users' terminal.
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oday, a webcam is a common peripheral, used most often for video conferencing, that most people can easily afford. But what can you do with your webcam besides video conferencing? If you are a developer, the answer is plenty; you will be glad to know that integrating a webcam with an application is not as difficult as you might imagine.
