I've been trying to access my webcam using Python, but I failed miserably. The camera works fine under Ubuntu (using camora and skype), but I am unable to get WebCamSpy or libfg to access my webcam.
First I tried webcamspy (http://webcamspy.sourceforge.net/). That requires pySerial and pyParallel, and optionally pyI2C. Runing WebCamSpy results in: Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "Parallel instance has no attribute '_fd'" in <bound method Parallel.__del__ of <parallel.parallelppdev.Parallel instance at 0x83326ac>> ignored This seems to come from importing I2C. The application window opens, but there's an error message: NO VIDEO SOURCE FOUND Next I tried libfg (http://antonym.org/libfg). I built it, made the Python bindings and installed it. Unfortunately the following: >>>import fg >>>grabber = fg.Grabber() results in: fg_open(): open video device failed: No such file or directory Since the camera works fine in Ubuntu itself my guess is that the problem is with the python libraries (or even likelier, my usage of them). Is there anybody here that was successful in accessing their webcam on linux using Python? Else I have to reside to Windows and VideoCapture (which relies on the win32 api and thus is Windows-only), something I'd rather not do. Thanks for any help, 2B =============== I am uUsing: WebCam: Logitech QuickCam Pro 400 Ubuntu Python 2.5 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
