python pygame.camera.init() NO vidcapture

Question

I am trying to initialize the 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()

Yet 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

PLS HELP!!! Im on Windows

Solution 1

I met the same problem. The error info of "ImportError: No module named vidcap" indicates that python interpreter didn't find the vidcap module on you machine.

so you'd better follow these steps.

1. Download the vidcap from http://videocapture.sourceforge.net/

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

3.restart you script.

Done!.

Solution 2

The camera module can only be used on linux

Solution 3

I met the same problem but I found out that its not included on windows ONLY LINUX