Video sources supported for preview and recording

Description

Video sources supported for preview and recording

The VideoSource property selects the video source to use:

vs_VideoCaptureDevice:
selects the video capture devices available on the current platform (by default), then the video capture device is selected by the VideoDevice property,

vs_VideoFileOrURL:
selects a file, URL or a static playlist specified by the VideoSource_FileOrURL property, for preview or recording (for playback with trackbar handling use OpenPlayer and the Player functions).

vs_ScreenRecording:
selects the screen as video source (to perform screen recording),

vs_Mixer:
In this mode the component mixes several other TVideoGrabber components. See How to mix several video sources into one a single one

vs_JPEGsOrBitmaps:
the video source are bitmap handles, or BMP files or JPEG files of the same format passed to the OnVideoFromBitmaps_NextFrameNeeded event.
See Video clips built on the fly by passing bitmap handles, BMP or JPEG files.

vs_VideoFromImages:
the video source is built from a set of bitmaps (BMP or JPEG files). See Video clip from bitmaps: Overview.