free installers and tools

NSIS 2.0

NSIS 2.0: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

HM NIS EDIT: A Free NSIS Editor/IDE
http://hmne.sourceforge.net/

Inno Setup

Inno Setup
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

ISTool - GUI tool for edition is scripts
http://www.istool.org/default.aspx/index

webcam... linux

Video for linux (v4l)
Most USB webcams have drivers for linux that provide a video for linux interface.
http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
Probably using video4linux would be the simplest solution for capturing video on linux systems.
Example of driver implementation: http://webcam.sourceforge.net/

There is also a Video for linux 2 implementation:
http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/
and they have an API for capturing video:
http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/v4l2cap.htm

usb stack implementation for linux
http://www.linux-usb.org/


Video4Linux based Plugin for Apache:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/modvideo/

Linux webcam howto

webcam ...

IPL98 - Portable Image Library
the IPL98 portable image library has a camera add-on library
http://www.mip.sdu.dk/ipl98/

Microsoft Vision SDK
After some developers forum recomendation "Microsoft Vision SDK" would be the best to develop webcam capturing applications. Microsoft unfortunately sold the vision sdk to a german company, it is no longer available for download on their reseach lab homepage.

privacy concerns

i have cancelled the editing of the blog because i have found it web-search engines searching for programming resources.
but i consider that i have a lot to lose if i don't keep an evidence of the "research" and my work.
i will probably move to a self-hosted, non-public version of blog server.

video for windows - simple AVI

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/Video_for_Windows.html

code samples:
http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/G-M/multimedia/video/article.php/c4723/
http://www.cppfrance.com/recherche.aspx?r=webcam&tr=tout

cpp coding standard, platform independent c/c++

simple cpp coding rules:
http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html

Mozilla's guide for Platform Independent c/c++ development:
http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html

portable c/c++ code writing - mozilla's guide

http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html#dont_ifdef_include

avi

http://sourceforge.net/projects/avifile/
http://avifile.sourceforge.net/

http://avifile.sourceforge.net/avicap/avicap.html

http://www.codeproject.com/audio/avicapwrp.asp