Re: OpenCV on 6.9 can't open camera

On 8/10/21 6:22 AM, Karsten Pedersen wrote:
>> I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on fixing this!
> Not sure if this is a solution for you (unless you want to faff
> with creating some minimal Python bindings) but I hacked at the OpenBSD
> /usr/X11R6/bin/video source code to create a quick standalone C API
> to be used as a library.
>
> Yes, it is probably not so portable as OpenCV but it is much lighter
> in terms of dependencies.
>
> openbsd_cam.h [https://pastebin.com/1rDpFMR4]
> openbsd_cam.c [https://pastebin.com/kuv3KhCX]
>
> (Original program: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/xenocara/app/video/video.c)
>
> I also chucked in some decoding so it basically provides you now with
> an array of bytes referring to RGB pixels.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Karsten
>
Hi Karsten,

Thanks for the reply.  This looks like an interesting project but I
think adapting it to my needs is going to be way above my pay grade!

Jeff