Python pygame.camera.init () NO vidcapture

Question

I am trying to initialize a camera module in pygame and display video from a USB webcam. This is my code:

import pygame import pygame.camera from pygame.camera import * from pygame.locals import * pygame.init() pygame.camera.init() cam = pygame.camera.Camera("/dev/video0",(640,480)) cam.start() image = cam.get_image() 

But I get this error:

 Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/Freddie/Desktop/CAMERA/Test1.py", line 7, in <module> pygame.camera.init() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygame\camera.py", line 67, in init _camera_vidcapture.init() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygame\_camera_vidcapture.py", line 21, in init import vidcap as vc ImportError: No module named vidcap 

HELP PLS !!! Im on windows

Answer 1

I met the same problem. The error information "ImportError: No module named vidcap" indicates that the python interpreter did not find the vidcap module on your computer.

so you better follow these steps.

• download vadcap from http://videocapture.sourceforge.net/

2. Then copy the appropriate version of the dll (which is called "vidcap.pyd" in VideoCapture-0.9-5 \ VideoCapture-0.9-5 \ Python27 \ DLL) to "your path to python" \ DLLs \.

3. Repeat you script.

done !.

Answer 2

Camera module can only be used on linux

Answer 3

I met the same problem, but I found out that it is not included in Windows ONLY LINUX

Answer 4

Try the following:

 import pygame import pygame.camera import time, string from VideoCapture import Device from pygame.locals import * pygame.camera.init() cam = pygame.camera.Camera(0,(640,480),"RGB") cam.start() img = pygame.Surface((640,480)) cam.get_image(img) pygame.image.save(img, "img2.jpg") cam.stop()