Ideas on how I should tackle some development

can it be done and how simple will it be?

[gazraa]

I am wanting to develop a simple application which takes a series of images captured from a web cam and converts them into an avi file at a set framerate. I also want a swf output to be created too for the web.

Would this be something I could tackle faily easily with maybe vb.NET? I'm not a 'proper' programmer but have worked with vb.net briefly and kind of got to grips with it. I have worked mainly with vbscript, actionscript, php and have done some delphi and vb. So I'm not a complete newbie.

I can pick different programming languages up fairly quickly, so although this is likely going to be a steep learning curve, I'm not too worried about being able to cope with the programming side of things.

My thoughts were to use flash or director to create the interface and use some sort of vb component or .NET to do the tricky bits with the file creation.

Is this a good idea to start with? Or would another avenue be better.

I'm not looking to be told how to do it, but a bit of a point in the right direction as to what would be the best route would be handy so I don't waste too much time.

[mrMister]

You'd be better off asking this question in the Flash forums. I'm sure there'll be a component out there somewhere that does the job, you'll be able to call that from within the .Net framework.

Failing that, you could use this...

[geovid.com...]

You will be able to call that vide from within .Net using something like this:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("VFCConsole.exe", "- Filein your.avi -FileOut your.swf)