Stream video from a camera in real time

[k3pto]

Can PB stream video from a camera in real time? The Camera Library seems to be only for a virtual camera.

[jacdelad]

The camera library is for the 3d engine and has nothing to do with any real or virtual camera. Just for info.
Sorry, can't help you with your problem.

[minimy]

Can PB stream video from a camera in real time? The Camera Library seems to be only for a virtual camera.

You can try aviCap or any external solution.

[kenmo]

The short answer is NO, PureBasic does not have any camera/webcam functionality built-in.

The longer answer is you can try using OS API for it (which OS are you on?) or some third party libraries.


Another exciting answer is that PureBasic already uses libSDL for some things, and major new version SDL3 is coming out very soon, which finally features camera/webcam functionality (cross-platform Windows Mac Linux and more!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKM6-03iOPs
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/CategoryCamera

I don't expect PB to add camera features based on SDL3, but it will totally be possible to load SDL3 ourself and call SDL's camera functions. Soon!

[infratec]

Maybe with libVLC

viewtopic.php?t=77848

And load movie withsomething like this:
rtsp://camname:password@192.168.7.79/live

Or

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vlc_play(vlc, "dshow://")

works here with a USB Logitech WebCam 200

[infratec]

Maybe the selection is possible with:

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vlc_play(vlc, "dshow:// :dshow-vdev=" + #DQUOTE$ + "Logitech Webcam 200" + #DQUOTE$ + " :dshow-adev=" + #DQUOTE$ + "Logitech Webcam 200" + #DQUOTE$)

[k3pto]

It seems like several responses point to using VLClib. Can someone please show me how to add it to my PB and then how to use it? I now have two requirements that VLC may be able to do:
1) real time video from a USB camera
2) show a video from the web

Has someone already implemented a port of VLClib to PB and, if so, is it available? Or is there a better solution?

[Caronte3D]

Follow the link infratec posted above

[kenmo]

Just as a follow-up, SDL3 released in January and I've released a "PBWebcam" includefile/library that uses SDL3 to access cameras in real time, to stream to PB image or CanvasGadget or save to file, etc.

https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?p=636983

https://github.com/kenmo-pb/PBWebcam