# Opening live camera feed via button press

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/opening-live-camera-feed-via-button-press/18084
**Category:** Libraries
**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/opening-live-camera-feed-via-button-press/18084 "2020-02-25T00:55:34Z")
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### Author: ![Dubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Dubs](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Dubs)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/opening-live-camera-feed-via-button-press/18084/1 "2020-02-25T00:55:34Z")

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Trying to have a live web-cam feed open when a specific button is pressed… there will be two buttons and I’d need two different video feeds to open (they will have different mods to the facial recognition aspect)

Very new to coding. Please help.

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### Author: ![20203](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/20203/32/8164_2.png) [@20203](https://discourse.processing.org/u/20203)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/opening-live-camera-feed-via-button-press/18084/2 "2020-02-25T23:49:48Z")

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Can you post your code? It’s hard to help without knowing where you are.