Re. WEBCAM capture with Gain and Exposure duration

Hated Moron · Post by **Hated Moron** » Mon 22 Aug 2022, 17:39

On 22/08/2022 04:21, Andrew Cool wrote (cross-posted from Discussion Group):

The info at Github suggests that escapi.dll v3 offers an interface for camera properties.

Has anyone successfully used escapi.dll v3 to set the exposure time for a webcam type device? Or otherwise done so?

Not me, but what is the actual difficulty? ESCAPI is designed to have an 'extremely simple' API (the clue is in the name!) so I would be surprised if it poses any problems. There are a number of wrappers for different languages, including two BASICs (PureBasic and BlitzMax), so I would expect adapting it for BBC BASIC to be quite straightforward. Give it a go, and if you encounter any specific issues ask again.