Component for Reading Video from CAMERA

[BSaidus]

Hello.
Is there a components for lazarus for reading streams and video from CAMERA's.
I know that there is RVMedia https://www.trichview.com/features/rvmedia.html,
TVideoGrabber https://www.datastead.com/products/video-sdk/ for delphi.
But they are not free.
So is there any component alternative for this that are able to work on Windows, Linux & Unix.

Thank you.
PS: ( Component or Library that be able to read from any kind of CAMERA ).

[Edson]

Maybe you can try OpenCV.

I ported a library for that: https://github.com/t-edson/LazarusOpenCV

[af0815]

rvmedia is indeed not free, but working.

Alternate you can use Directshow on windows an v4l on linux. Or gst on all :-)

[BSaidus]

@Edson, thanks, I will try it.
@af0815 Thank you, could you provide me with links to these projects ?

thanks

[Jurassic Pork]

hello,
you can try also libvlc  with paslibvlc 

Friendly, J.P

[BSaidus]

hello,
you can try also libvlc  with paslibvlc 

Friendly, J.P

Thank you, but I want a Video Capture library from CAMERA ( any kind of camera ). not just playing video.

[Jurassic Pork]

libvlc can capture network video stream  like IP camera (see here),  can also capture webcam video, tv stream video not only play video file

[Thaddy]

Indeed, libvlc or directly ffmpeg. Libvlc is easier to use.

[MarkMLl]

In any event, if starting to use a new camera with Linux it's important to watch kernel output: there's still more camera setup variants and results than some v4l drivers are happy about.

MarkMLl

[metis]

@BSaidus

... or directly ffmpeg ...

In this case, my FFGrab4Laz-Thread might be helpful for You:

Take the Source of 'ScreenRecorder2FPC' (= record Video with FFmpeg-LIBs) or
'RunFFmpeg' (= do anything via FFmpeg-CLIs) or FFmpeg's 'ffmpeg.exe' itself and
replace 'gdigrab' with Your Camera, as described in the FFmpeg-DOC
-> GoTo "26.6.2 Examples" (= for DirectShow) and search for "camera".
(According to Your Signature, You use Windows.)

To open the Camera (and the Microphone), try this:
ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="Camera":audio="Microphone"

And to record it to a File, add an Output, like:
ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="Camera":audio="Microphone" "output.mp4"

These are minimal FFmpeg-CommandLines. You may add more Arguments to adapt them to Your Needs.