List Capture Devices on Windows using DirectShow
This is a simple and lightweight Python extension that allows developers to enumerate capture devices. The device names can be used to open capture devices with, for instance, PyAV. The extension can be used as follows:
from windows_capture_devices import get_capture_devices
device_list = get_capture_devices()
We use this extension in the WebcamSource
of our multisensor-pipeline.
Setup
- From PyPI (recommended)
pip install windows-capture-devices
- From source (we recommend to use an Anaconda environment for building the package)
python setup.py build install
- Build a wheel
pip install wheel python setup.py bdist_wheel
PyAV Example
We include an example for grabbing an image frame using PyAV in demo.py
. The demo has additional dependencies:
conda install av -c conda-forge
pip install Pillow
Credits
This repository is forked from https://github.com/yushulx/python-capture-device-list.