Hello there,

I am new to PC programming.
I did some programming mainly using C in the Unix world.

I would like to write a program handling video files: basically to load the compressed file in memory, to select several subsections of it , then to send these selected subsections to webcam driver.

What are the best languages to handle this?

I am looking for libraries (in any language) that can play with video files:
Load in memory, allow random access, compress/decompress, copy to file, write to port

Is there any freeware doing that?

Thanks

Pc_acc