[SDL] A stupid newbie's question: can SDL capture video from web cam in different platforms?

[Ryan C. Gordon]

>   I'm really a newbie to SDL. What I want to do is to write an 
> application to capture video from web camera both in Linux and windows. 
> Does SDL help to unify these kinds of operation? If SDL does, I can use 
> it freely instead of writing two set of codes to handle the same situation.

Video capture isn't available in the SDL API.

I think there was some talk of adding it to SDL 1.3, but no one has.

--ryan.