Can't access webcam with OpenCV

Question

I\'m using OpenCV 2.2 with visual studio 2010 on a win 7 64 bit pc.

I\'m able to display pictures and play AVI files through OpenCV as given in the book \"Learning O

Answer 1

Once you create the cv::VideoCapture you should give an integer not a string (since string implies the input is a file).

To open the default camera, open the stream with

cv::VideoCapture capture(0); 

and it will work fine.