How to view two USB Cameras

Technical Programming
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Hi.

We are struggling on how to view 2 USB Microsoft Cameras on our robot. Not for vision processing, but just that the driver is able to view them.

We program on Java.

Has anybody tried this and could help us doing it?

We would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advane

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One of the programmers on our team has published a snippet of code that allows you to switch between 2+ cameras on the robot while using minimal bandwith. The snippet of code can be viewed in this thread.

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Actually, this is an outdated thread. The updated version can be found here

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Our roborio just couldn’t handle two simultaneous usb cameras even when not running the robot it just errored out. We ended up with a USB camera and an Axis IP Camera. This gave us a 180 degree view and a nice aim camera.