[Zope] VideoCapture module fails under Zope on Win32

[Dylan Reinhardt]

According to the SourceForge page, the VideoCapture binary is compiled 
against Python 2.2.  You probably have that installed on your system 
somewhere, so it works fine at the command line.

Current production versions of Zope run Python 2.1.3.  I would guess this 
is the source of your problem.  Perhaps your project is interesting enough 
the VideoCapture maintainers might release a binary compiled against 2.1.3?

Dylan

At 11:29 AM 2/27/2003, Tim wrote:

>I've been playing with the python VideoCapture webcam module
>(http://videocapture.sourceforge.net/), and thought: wouldn't it be
>nice to wrap this in a Zope product! Yes, yes it would, I agreed with
>myself. Webcam controllable directly from Zope...
>
>Unfortunately I quickly seem to have hit a hurdle I can not get over.
>The VideoCapture module can not seem to open the device when running
>under Zope. The code works perfectly fine, using Zope's python
>version, when run from the command line outside of Zope... but inside
>Zope the identical (cut/paste) code always fails.
>
>The error message returned by the vidcap.pyd when trying to connect to
>the camera device is generic, so I can't see what specifically the
>problem is (if the windows error code is any more specific). I have
>the source, of course, but I'm not a c++ person so have no compiler.
>Anyhow it seems doubtful I'd be able to get around whatever the
>problem is.
>
>I'm just wondering if anyone might be able to enlighten me on possible
>reasons for this behaviour. I think vaguely recall that Zope on Windows
>runs at some sort of lowered privileges (but i could remember
>incorrectly; I don't know how these sorts of things work on Win32).
>Could this be the cause? How might one get around this, if so?
>
>--
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