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[Robert Garber]

yes i use windows and most of the people i am targeting also use windows.

As for the datbase side I have downloaded MySQL, but have as of yet to start learning it . I am still knee deep in python tutorials and getting deeper. :0) I  would like to thank you for your time in repling to my question. 

Thanks Agin,
Robert

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Danny Yoo <dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 19:07:02 -0800 (PST)

>On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Robert Garber wrote:
>
>>  Here is my question. is it possible to use Python to write a GUI
>> program that will use a video capture card to capture a small video
>> clip usally 8-15 seconds long, then give it a name, and create a
>> relational database that can be sorted any number of differtent ways?
>
>Hi Robert,
>
>Yes, it's definitely possible!  If you're using Windows, I believe you can
>use the VideoCaputure module:
>
>    http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e9326522/VideoCapture/
>
>I'm not sure if this works, as I don't have Windows, but there are
>probably other sources of video capture software out there. Does anyone
>have familiarity with video capture on other operating systems like Linux?
>
>
>
>Python also has pretty good relational database support.  After you get
>more familiar with Python, you can take a look at:
>
>    http://python.org/topics/database/
>
>This url is a topic guide on database programming and Python.  Do you have
>a particular database in mind?
>
>
>
>> I am very NEW to programming as a whole but extremely motivated to
>> learn. This is a small part of a project I eventualy hope to complete.
>
>This sounds like a very cool project!  I'm sure it's possible; I saw
>something called the San Diego Zoo Panda Cam:
>
>    http://www3.telus.net/futility/futility/software.html#pypanda
>
>so something like this is definitely possible.  Please feel free to ask
>questions; I'd love to see this work!  *grin*
>
>
>
>Good luck!
>
>