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Java: How do I take input from a USB video capture device?

I have a USB device that provides a video stream to the computer. Normally I just use a program to display this information in a window. I'd like to have my Java program take this image data directly into my code. How is this possible?

I already have drivers and everything set up. I just need to let my program access the data stream coming in through USB. I imagine this might be similar to using a USB webcam?

Solution

  • you could try Xuggler

    its an open source wrapper for FFmpeg to get started with it look at this java class from the xuggler package or this tutorial here

    or you could use the xuggler media tool .

    The class i gave you link to should have anything you need to decode , play , and manipulate video from any source ... just change container.open(url...) change the URL to w.e source and it should work .

    Here's an example project i once made with Xuggler :

    and example project i made with xuggler