(03-01-2025, 06:38 PM)SpriggsySpriggs Wrote:Gotcha... maybe if the camera's software itself has an API, but not that important for anything I'd be looking to do. You've done quite enough, thank you! :-D(03-01-2025, 05:41 PM)madscijr Wrote: @SpriggsySpriggs, can we control camera zoom with the API?
We're grabbing raw pixel data but we're not really controlling the camera itself. Now, if we open the camera dialog again during preview, we can use Windows' sliders to adjust zoom and such.
I did some googling on generating an AVI, and found something about using FFMPEG for turning a bunch of still images into a movie, so maybe that could work (just save each frame to a file and then shell out to FFMPEG)?
I'll play with this stuff later. One thing I want to try is "video echo"... Merging the images from the camera as they come in with what's already on the screen... Maybe it will show trails or look trippy. Another idea is: connect 2 or more laptops each with a webcam, where the other laptops send pictures over a LAN to laptop #1 which merges them in some funky way. I don't know what kind of throughput it would need for 1 or more streams of 320x240 resolution at 30 FPS? This stuff is fun to play with, that's for sure :-)