Re: Webcam QT Widget

On Friday 06 August 2004 13:39, Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote:
> On Friday 06 August 2004 13:29, Nahuel Greco wrote:
> > Hi, I have a QT (non KDE) application and I want to add a widget
> > displaying realtime video from a webcam. Also I want to eventually take
> > jpg or pnm snapshots from it. Googling, seems that kwintv is the only
> > option for QT with support for overlay video.
> >
> > So, has kwintv an usable (non kde) Widget for this purpose? Any hints or
> > advices on where look at the code for that? (with trivial or non-trivial
> > potential qt adaptation/isolation work).
>
> basically kdetv contains a Qt TV widget. If you take only kvideoio and
> adapt the v4l plugin for your needs you would have such a widget.
> Unfortunately, the v4l plugin is not very usable for webcams since it lacks
> image format conversion (on the TODO list). It seems many webcams to not
> grab YUV (what XVIDEO wants).

  Though the code was originally developed with a quickcam express actually, 
and it's very easily to adapt RGB.

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