python pygame.camera.init() NO vidcapture

Question

I am trying to initialize the camera module in pygame and display video from a usb webcam. This is my code:

import pygame
import pygame.camera
from pygame.ca         


        

Answer 1

I met the same problem but I found out that its not included on windows ONLY LINUX

Answer 2

I met the same problem. The error info of "ImportError: No module named vidcap" indicates that python interpreter didn't find the vidcap module on you machine.

so you'd better follow these steps.

1. Download the vidcap from http://videocapture.sourceforge.net/

2.Then copy the corresponding version of dll (which named "vidcap.pyd" in VideoCapture-0.9-5\VideoCapture-0.9-5\Python27\DLLs) to "your python path"\DLLs\ .

3.restart you script.

Done!.

Answer 3

The camera module can only be used on linux

Answer 4

Try this:

import pygame

import pygame.camera

import time, string


from VideoCapture import Device

from pygame.locals import *

pygame.camera.init()

cam = pygame.camera.Camera(0,(640,480),"RGB")

cam.start()

img = pygame.Surface((640,480))

cam.get_image(img)

pygame.image.save(img, "img2.jpg")

cam.stop()