webcams and parallel ports in java

kamahl9 · Post by **kamahl9** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:16 am

Hey, i'm currently looking for ways to get a video input stream from a usb webcam and communicate with the parallel ports on a labtop using java. If anyone has any information or suggestsions i would greatly appriciate your adivce.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat May 06, 2006 11:02 am

I'm no java guru or anything but java isn't good for hardware programming so if it is possible at all it will be very difficult.

chunyi81 · Post by **chunyi81** » Sat May 06, 2006 11:47 am

I am no Java expert, but you can look up the Java API at http://java.sun.com