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Not so convenient: after XP there is no more WebCam viewer in Windows (via: How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7? – Super User)

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/14

Microsoft removed the WebCam viewer from Windows on all versions released after XP.
Very inconvenient, as it was very light weight, and most webcam software isn’t.

William describes in his answer to How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7?, there is a small AMcap sample in the Microsoft DirectX SDK that works very well.
He also points to 2 download locations where you can get the compiled version (the SDK only has the source code).

–jeroen

Via: How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7? – Super User, there is a

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