pxCamera is a simple video camera capture class that layers on top of pxCore, my portable opensource framebuffer library. The design of pxCamera make it well suited to do a variety of fun and interesting things with captured video frames like computer vision or image processing applications.

The design of the pxCamera API followed a few principles as follows:

• Be Simple – Allows for enumeration of available capture devices and the ability to initiate capturing frames from a given camera into a pxBuffer(framebuffer).
• No UI Policy – Simple capture into a framebuffer. No UI is assumed.
• Support multiple capture sources simultaneously. [I’ve tested with two webcams] pxCamera should support any DirectShow compatible video source.
• Portable API – The API is portable even though the implementation is currently only for Windows.

Related Projects:

pxCore - Portable Framebuffer Library