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09.28.2003 at 01:33PM PDT, ID: 20751153
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DirectX: Capture live video from a webcam to a compressed (WMV or AVI) file, help!

Asked by inekedg in DirectX Graphics & Game Programming

Tags: webcam, directx, capture

Hi There,

My question is simple actually. Using the microsoft DirectX SDK 8.1 and 9.0 (AmCap etc.) Visual C++ samples I am able to preview and capture video from a webcam to a uncompressed video format, but these files are HUGE.  All I want to do is preview the video while saving it to a compressed video format in an WMV or AVI file.

I have tried combining DirectX preview with ASF writer functions, but the graph always failed whatever profiles I used. Uncompressed it works in AVI format (AMCap sample)

Did anybody solve this problem? Any C++ solution (preferably with a little source code) that saves webcam live video into a compressed video format is welcome.
(I'm using both Visual Studio 6 and .net 2003)

Greetings,
inekedg@hotmail.com

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