Accessing webcam from a Java program

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I want to access my web cam in my project. So can anyone help me out? How to do it? What package it will require... the code... etc...

language-->java
platform-->linux/windows.

Posted 23-Dec-09 20:52pm

suren129

Updated 23-Dec-09 22:06pm

Rajesh R Subramanian

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neer15 8-Oct-12 4:17am

u can use
java media player
with media locator "vfw:0"

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Rajesh R Subramanian · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-23T22:09:00

wrote:
I want to access my web cam in my project. So can anyone help me out? How to do it?

You'll require to write code for that.

wrote:
language-->java
platform-->linux/windows.

Have you tried searching sourceforge for projects with this specification? A search instantly came up with this result (among many others): JVideo - A Java based webcam display system[^]

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