Help with webcam or video stream

chio · Post by **chio** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:01 pm

Hi and thanks to all for helping.

I know there are several postings that talk about AVICAP and others for grabbing the video stream but I could not find anywhere a SIMPLE or should we say BASIC script that would do this.

Can someone please post a simple script to grab a video stream. I know in other languages such as ActionScript and such all you need to do is call a class and the paths. Can that be achieved here in less thank 20 lines?

Can someone post an example please.

Thanks again,
Carlos

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 5:25 pm

I have a WebCam stream / frame capture project in progress that has 333 lines thus far. I plucked out some code, and with the following 19 lines, I am able to view a plain and simple WebCam preview window on my system. Your situation may require some additional device/system checks, so you may need to add some additional code. When you want to start capturing a stream, use SendMessage_(hWndC, #WM_CAP_SEQUENCE, 0, 0). You should also take a look at the CAPTUREPARMS and CAPDRIVERCAPS structures in the Win32 API. For more information, check out MSDN Video Capture

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;Code removed by Sparkie due to errors. Will fix and repost.

Wolf · Post by **Wolf** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:34 am

Hi Sparkie.

Your code is very good but after compile and run it see an error message about can't read memory and program will be closed.

What's problem ?

No any problem if your code is more of 20 line .

Best regards.

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:19 pm

I just noticed I had OpenLibrary(1... and then CloseLibrary(0...

I edited the original code above and changed OpenLibrary(1 to OpenLibrary(0...

Don't know if that will fix your problem because the even the bad code executed without error here with PB 3.91 beta2 on WinXP.

I'm still learning about video capture so maybe someone else can provide a better answer.

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:41 pm

Seems I messed up while cutting those 20 lines of code from my original project. It's more than 20 lines now

but it should work without error.

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#WM_CAP_START = #WM_USER 
#WM_CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT = #WM_CAP_START + 10 
#WM_CAP_DRIVER_DISCONNECT = #WM_CAP_START + 11 
#WM_CAP_DRIVER_GET_CAPS = #WM_CAP_START + 14 
#WM_CAP_SET_PREVIEW = #WM_CAP_START + 50 
#WM_CAP_SET_PREVIEWRATE = #WM_CAP_START + 52 
#WM_CAP_STOP = #WM_CAP_START + 68 

If OpenWindow(0, 0, 0, 340, 260, #PB_Window_ScreenCentered | #PB_Window_SystemMenu, "Video capture") 
  If OpenLibrary(0, "C:\WINDOWS\system32\avicap32.dll") 
    *capAddress = IsFunction(0, "capCreateCaptureWindowA") 
    hWndC = CallFunctionFast(*capAddress, "My Capture Window", #WS_CHILD | #WS_VISIBLE, 10, 10, 320, 240, WindowID(),1) 
    SendMessage_(hWndC, #WM_CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT, 0, 0) 
    SendMessage_(hWndC, #WM_CAP_SET_PREVIEW, #True, 0) 
    SendMessage_(hWndC, #WM_CAP_SET_PREVIEWRATE, 15, 0) 
  EndIf
EndIf

Repeat
  Event = WaitWindowEvent()
Until Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow 

SendMessage_(hWndC, #WM_CAP_STOP, 0, 0) 
SendMessage_(hWndC, #WM_CAP_DRIVER_DISCONNECT, 0, 0) 
DestroyWindow_(hWndC)
CloseLibrary(0)

End

chio · Post by **chio** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:12 pm

Yhis is excellent on the first try the cam came out. And now I can finally see how to get it in a simple way.

Now I need to go for the thougher parts. Edge recognition, motion and other stuuf.

Thanks a lot. This is great.

What kind of app are you doing with this?

I was trying to get icamplay but the owner of the librarieas has not responded. I hear his stuff is pretty good.

Carlos

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:46 pm

What kind of app are you doing with this?

Just a personal use motion/frame grabber to keep an eye on things while I'm away from home. I think for me, it's more of a learning app.

chio · Post by **chio** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:47 pm

That is what I am doing exactly but for my office. But I am a total newbie on this.

Can you share some thoughts of what has gone well or bad. Or what not to try?

Thanks,
Carlos

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:33 pm

chio wrote:That is what I am doing exactly but for my office. But I am a total newbie on this.

Can you share some thoughts of what has gone well or bad. Or what not to try?

Thanks,
Carlos

Well I'm only about a week into this project so I can't say much yet in regards to the good or bad. Capturing stream and/or frame has been little or no problem. I've just started on motion detection and I'm almost certain this will be a little harder to tackle.

I'll let you know of my success/failures in the coming days.

PWS32 · Post by **PWS32** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:11 pm

Hi Sparkie,

nice code !
howto can save a captured picture ?

Best regards,
Peter

chio · Post by **chio** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:24 pm

This comes from another threath but it works really well.

source.s="source.bmp" ;Switch "source.bmp" to your file
dest.s="dest.jpg" ;Also edit the destination
quality.l=7 ;7 is default. From 0-10
LoadImage(0,source.s)
UseJPEGImageEncoder()
SaveImage(0,dest.s,#PB_ImagePlugin_JPEG,quality.l)

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:21 pm

PWS32 wrote:Hi Sparkie,

nice code !
howto can save a captured picture ?

Best regards,
Peter

Thanks PWS32. As I've said before, this is new territory for me so there may well be a better way to do this.

I start off by creating an image placeholder for my frame image...

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CreateImage(0, 320, 240)

Then whenever I want to grab a frame from the preview window, I copy it to and from the clipboard, then draw to my Image(0)...

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SendMessage_(handle_to_your_capture_preview_window, #WM_CAP_GRAB_FRAME_NOSTOP, 0, 0)
          SendMessage_(handle_to_your_capture_preview_window, #WM_CAP_EDIT_COPY, 0, 0)
          img = GetClipboardData(#PB_ClipboardImage)
          StartDrawing(ImageOutput())
          DrawImage(img, 0, 0)
          StopDrawing()

Then to save it...

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SaveImage(0, your_file_name$, #PB_ImagePlugin_JPEG, 7)

Wolf · Post by **Wolf** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:43 pm

Hi Sparkie.

Thank you for your nice and small code.

It's work now very good.

It's GREAT

Wolf · Post by **Wolf** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:58 pm

Sparkie i have small problem.

I can't convert your code for save image.

When compile show error on the #WM_CAP_GRAB_FRAME_NOSTOP .

Can you fix your code for save webcam to pic ?

I don't need to any window for show live webcam.

Thanks

Best regards.

PWS32 · Post by **PWS32** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 5:08 pm

Hi,

im have the same problem and have remove the line:
SendMessage_(hWndC, #WM_CAP_GRAB_FRAME_NOSTOP, 0, 0)

and have add:
UseJPEGImageEncoder()

this works fine
cant understand what is #WM_CAP_GRAB_FRAME_NOSTOP
im found not information for this by google

Best regards,
Peter

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Repeat 
  Event = WaitWindowEvent() 
  If Event = #PB_EventGadget
    GadgetID = EventGadgetID()
    If GadgetID = #Button_0
      ;SendMessage_(hWndC, #WM_CAP_GRAB_FRAME_NOSTOP, 0, 0) 
          SendMessage_(hWndC, #WM_CAP_EDIT_COPY, 0, 0) 
          img = GetClipboardData(#PB_ClipboardImage) 
          StartDrawing(ImageOutput()) 
          DrawImage(img, 0, 0) 
          StopDrawing()
          UseJPEGImageEncoder()
          SaveImage(0, "c:\test.jpg", #PB_ImagePlugin_JPEG, 7)
    EndIf
  EndIf
Until Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow

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