This is my code, which starts the webcam :
import pygame.camera import pygame.image import sys pygame.camera.init() cameras = pygame.camera.list_cameras() print "Using camera %s ..." % cameras[0] webcam = pygame.camera.Camera(cameras[0]) webcam.start() # grab first frame img = webcam.get_image() WIDTH = img.get_width() HEIGHT = img.get_height() screen = pygame.display.set_mode( ( WIDTH, HEIGHT ) ) pygame.display.set_caption("pyGame Camera View") while True : for e in pygame.event.get() : if e.type == pygame.QUIT : sys.exit() # draw frame screen.blit(img, (0,0)) pygame.display.flip() # grab next frame img = webcam.get_image()
I want to know how to capture an image and store it to the current directory. Please suggest the changes required.
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Answer
When you call webcam.get_image it returns an RGB Surface. So just call pygame.image.save(), the file type is determined by the extension and defaults to TGA. Options are BMP, TGA, PNG, and JPEG. In this case you could append this line to your file.
pygame.image.save(img, "image.jpg")
Check out http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/image.html and http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/camera.html