Programming languag for viedo streaming?

[Oceansoul]

Hi there,

I got a question. I am about to work on a project where a video stream from a webcam has to be handled. It has to be stored and 'analyzed' (image processing). Actually I don´t know that much yet about the project, but I was wondering if there was an easy way to decide about the programming language.
Generally the first thought would go to Java (also since the rest of the project is Java code). But on second though I was wondering if C++ would be the better approach, performance-wise.

Does anybody have experience in this area? Also are there tutorials on video streaming and image processing.

Grateful for any help or ideas. Thanks.

Oceansoul