in reply to perly webcam generic interface

If this is for Linux, I'd point you at Video::Capture::V4l (I've looked at it, but havn't done anything complex with it.)

If this is for win32, I'd recommend using fwink. (Which has nothing to do with perl, though I use it with my camnet script (which is too ugly to post, and does no actualy camera manipulation -- it just sends and displays jpegs.))

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