Take snapshot from webcam and save it as a picture

[DrAhmed]

Hey everyone,

I am looking for a simple function to take a single snapshot from webcam and save  it as a picture

I've searched in google and most of UDF's I foud were outdated and not working, others are very complicated to use .

It would be cool if it can control the quality of saved picture like in screenshots

_ScreenCapture_SetJPGQuality($Quality)

I would appreciate it If someone can help
thanks in advance

[mLipok]

I think you should take a look here:

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/User_Defined_Functions#Hardware

 

[DrAhmed]

21 minutes ago, mLipok said:

I think you should take a look here:

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/User_Defined_Functions#Hardware

 

Both UDFs are not working I got a blank black window for both of them , snapshot picture is empty

I also got this popup when I first execute the script ( for both UDFs)  :

Edited April 28, 2016 by DrAhmed

[mLipok]

This one :

 

works for me out of the box.

 

 

[DrAhmed]

3 minutes ago, mLipok said:

This one :

 

works for me out of the box.

 

 

Not for me

Then :

I am on Windows 10 x64 with bultin webcam for laptop , doest this affect the script ?

[mLipok]

Just now, DrAhmed said:

I am on Windows 10 x64 with bultin webcam for laptop

I'm exactly in the same situtuation.

[DrAhmed]

7 hours ago, mLipok said:

I'm exactly in the same situtuation.

Well After many tests .. I did a restart to my pc and both scripts worked good for the first run

But, If I close the script and run it again I get the popup and black screen (like above)  , is there a solution for that ? or the bug is in the UDF itself ?

Edited April 28, 2016 by DrAhmed

[mLipok]

Do not know, I just used it first time.

[AutoBert]

I used the UDF from Ludocus long time ago and published a Demo for it: https://autoit.de/index.php/Thread/22404-Beispiel-SnapShot-s-from-WebCam-ver-0-8-1-3/?pageNo=1

In https://autoit.de/index.php/Thread/28732-Zwei-Webcam-Anwendungen/ BugFix posted a changed UDF. And from this thread i know 1*Skype started and WebCam can't be used with AutoIt (also when Skype is closed meanwhile) without a restart of the system. The Downloadable Files are attached.

My "SnapShot from WebCam"-Example: WebCam_SnapShots.au3 uses the the webcam.au3 from Ludocus,but will also work with the newer Web_Cam.au3 from @BugFix

The atached files from BugFix thread: SimpleWebCamApp.au3, MyWebcam.au3, Web_Cam.au3, WebcamConstants.au3 .

When using BugFix Web_Cam.au3 (based on Ludocus WebCam.au3) the WebCamConstants.au3 must be in same folder as the Web_Cam.au3. 

 

Edited April 28, 2016 by AutoBert

[mLipok]

 

@BugFix

Trying to download: SimpleWebcamApp.au3
From site mentioned by @AutoBert

And I get:    Fatal error: An error occured. Sorry.

Can you post your modification to the AutoIt forum in:

https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/files/category/12-hardware/

 

[AutoBert]

@mLipok: i attached all 4 files on my post before. The one download you got the error (is beeing lost by forum update) is also posted in spoiler.

[mLipok]

Thanks .
EDIT: Works prety good

 

Edited April 28, 2016 by mLipok

[DrAhmed]

same problem works only at first time

Edited April 28, 2016 by DrAhmed

[DrAhmed]

I've a friend who made a .Net webcam viewer using an external webcam.dll plugin written in VB.NET and it  works correctly every time 

I wonder if we can do this in Autoit 

[AutoBert]

The original script from Ludocus, the BugFix scripts and mine are working correctly every time on my pc. The script von Limiter don't work on my pc. Have you tried mine?

[DrAhmed]

9 hours ago, AutoBert said:

The original script from Ludocus, the BugFix scripts and mine are working correctly every time on my pc. The script von Limiter don't work on my pc. Have you tried mine?

yes that's what I got :

 

[masvil]

A good command line solution is CommandCam.