QuickCam and python?

[akhar]

SANE in PIL? I haven't seen that mentionned on their web site? Does it do
realtime or picture by picture?
"Andrew Kuchling" <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote in message
news:3dae3r3uzc.fsf at ute.cnri.reston.va.us...
> "akhar" <akhar at videotron.ca> writes:
> > Is it possible to read direcltly from a quickcam or any other video
camera
> > from python, and use pil(for example) to stream it? I am still shopping
for
> > a camera to use for my project if there is one that is better ...
>
> If you're on a Unix platform, it's possible to use the SANE module in
> PIL to read from a QuickCam and get an Image object containing the
> data, which can then be saved, manipulated, or whatever.
>
> If you're on Windows, I have no clue.
>
> --amk
>