Webcam on windows

[arielj]

I was trying some things and I think i've made some advances, but I need help because I don't know too much about C.

First, i've made some changes to the webcam to remove those xid problems... xid is something for unix, but on windows it can use "handle" instead, so, added checks for os.name and used xid or handle. (attributes for gtk.gdk.drawable http://library.gnome.org/devel/pygtk/2.16/class-gdkdrawable.html)

I intalled gstreamer win builds http://www.gstreamer-winbuild.ylatuya.es/doku.php

And tryied to compile all the .c files on libmimic folder.

The two main problems are:
-I don't know what to tell to gstreamer to get the webcam, it uses v4l2src on the code when creating a pipe, but it's only for linux (v4l2 = video 4 linux 2)
-I can't create a .so with all the .o files compiled (i compiled them using "mingw32-gcc.exe file.c -o file.o -I c:/path_to_python's_include_folder")

If anyone can help me here...

I'll post the errors when I get back from work

[OpenNingia]

try this:

http://videocapture.sourceforge.net/

it should be easier on windows...

here is an example:

http://technobabbler.com/?p=22

[C10uD]

it must use gstreamer in windows, not yet-another-custom-video-lib

[OpenNingia]

it must use gstreamer in windows, not yet-another-custom-video-lib

IMHO VideoCapture is better because it use DirectShow ( which is how windows handle video devices ), dont know about gstreamer.

[arielj]

I've tried looking amsn's code, but I have NO idea what they do hahah, I don't understand too much.

Also, I thought that it would be easier, but the only example I found about webcam on google is for linux and the simplest examples for some audio player or something like that crashes here...

I don't know, maybe someone on the amsn2 team finds out and put it on papyon and problem solved hahaha