[Tutor] Linux webcam libraries?

[Sander Sweers]

On 12 June 2010 20:22, Wayne Werner <waynejwerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to be able to grab a webcam image via python. So I'm curious if
> anyone has had any experience/luck in this particular area and/or knows of
> any libraries I should take a look at. I know my webcam definitely works
> under linux because I can use the cheese program and see the image...

Everything that captures video under linux is managed by video4linux
[1]. You will have to figure out how to use it with python. A quick
google search led me to v4l2capture [2].

Greets
Sander

[1] http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
[2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/v4l2capture/1.2