How to open camera with pygame in Windows?

Try this,

 import pygame.camera
 import pygame.image
 import sys

 pygame.camera.init()

 cameras = pygame.camera.list_cameras()

 print "Using camera %s ..." % cameras[0]

 webcam = pygame.camera.Camera(cameras[0])

 webcam.start()

 # grab first frame
 img = webcam.get_image()

 WIDTH = img.get_width()
 HEIGHT = img.get_height()

 screen = pygame.display.set_mode( ( WIDTH, HEIGHT ) )
 pygame.display.set_caption("pyGame Camera View")

 while True :
     for e in pygame.event.get() :
         if e.type == pygame.QUIT :
             sys.exit()

     # draw frame
     screen.blit(img, (0,0))
     pygame.display.flip()
     # grab next frame    
     img = webcam.get_image()

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