(This is the documentation for SDL3, which is under heavy development and the API is changing! SDL2 is the current stable version!)

SDL_GetVideoCaptureDevices

Get a list of currently connected video capture devices.

Syntax

SDL_VideoCaptureDeviceID* SDL_GetVideoCaptureDevices(int *count);

Function Parameters

count a pointer filled in with the number of video capture devices

Return Value

Returns a 0 terminated array of video capture instance IDs which should be freed with SDL_free(), or NULL on error; call SDL_GetError() for more details.

Version

This function is available since SDL 3.0.0.


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