> Do you mean something like this? > > Easy Cap Audio-Video Capturing Adapter > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AvT8JQ7NzI
this would be suitable, if it had a documented driver, some sites said it could only be used with the included software. many bad comments, though: http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?threadID=2000392978&start=40 I found this library http://videocapture.sourceforge.net/ which may be useful to others I will probably go for a TWAIN enabled grabber like http://www.zarbeco.com/usb_videolink.htm and use twainmodule.sourceforge.net/ An alternative would be to use directshow, which seems to be supported by many cameras: http://directpython.sourceforge.net/index.html thanks for your input Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list