Is there a manner to record from webcam in background?

[kovicic]

Hi, I think the subject is pretty explanatory, I want to grab the input from a webcam and record it. I don’t want the windows appears.
This post is similar to my needs, but it doesn´ t say what I am asking. Thanks.

recording video then playing back the capture

Hi, I want to develop a project that will record peoples high fives and play them back for another visitor to high five with. I know I will be probably need to use openCV,video grabber and video player and then store all of the data (recordings in an xml). so the basic action going on is that a person steps up to the installation and participates in a high five with a previous recording of a high five. the newest high five recorded by the previous person is stored in the xml. all of …

Best!

[DomAmato]

if your on osx or linux

timscaffidi/ofxVideoRecorder

if your on windows

DomAmato/ofxVideoRecorder

as for windowless check out this topic

Windowless OF

Hi, With the new window management in of006 it’s possible to change from GLUT to any other handler - or to not use any. Here is some simple code that implements this in a ofAppNoWindow class. What it does is that it starts OF with only the console, no graphics at all. This means only the update callback is used and anything in draw functions are ignored. This is good when doing a separate video tracking app for example: you can use GLUT to develop/configure the tracking and then use the NoWind…

[kovicic]

I am working with Ubuntu 12.04, Thanks a lot for the links, I will check out them.

Best!