Panzy wrote:
"W. eWatson" wrote in message
...
Andrew E. wrote:
Actually with tv capture cards,the best bet is to install its drivers
only.For
software (recording/editing/converting,etc) use microsoft encoder 9
series,
+ get its utilities..As for python,go to python web site,&/or go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/msdn MSDN & its communities are well aquinted
with python & its uses....

"W. eWatson" wrote:

A friend is looking for some help with how to use Python to access a
WinTV (Go Plus) capture card, and how to display an image from it. Is
there some facility that might help him, or does anyone have experience
with such use that might suggest sources? Win XP OS. Any general methods
for dealing with such commercially built capture cards?

Good. Thanks. I'll try it. There are many python sites. Any particular
one. I do belong to some python forums and NGs.


I have no experiance of Python, but we all have experiance of Andrew E.
He is an annoying poster who believes encoder9 cures everything, even
swine flu! It is not what you need.
Your first port of call should be Hauppauge who manufacture WinTV.
Support (USA):
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support.html
User forums (UK)
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/index.php


I finally got through to Hauppauge, but Python seemed out of their
vocabulary. They did point me to OCX for older products and MS Show (I
have no idea what that is) for current products. I'll try the UK link
next. Thanks. None of the Python NGs (comp.lang.python) showed any
meaningful responses. I'm fairly well aquainted with Python, but am
somewhat surprised something isn't available.