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How to capture a picture in my webcam?

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hawken

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Can any one tell me how? Or any free source code?
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CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

I think that has a take picture option.

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Are you trying to do this programmatically, or are you just looking for webcam software?
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Do you want real time video with some performance or do you simply want a still picture? For still pictures, I bet there are plenty libraries out there.

Back a while, when I did a bachelor thesis, I wrote some code to capture real time video from the camera in high-res and then the program did some rather heavy analysis on it. I remember using Microsoft Direct Show + Direct 3D as library. I did try some other high-level software/libraries but none were fast enough.

I think a google search on direct show + video capture will give some results. But directx and windows might not be your platform, your info is rather vague.