Hauppauge ImpactVCB Video Capture Board - Anyone use it?

Has anyone used Hauppauge ImpactVCB Video Capture Board with Flash Media Live encoder and have success?

George. You probably don't have many options with the Epix board. However, if your Epix software enables you to save files to disk, then you can open them from LabVIEW and process them with Vision or Vision Builder.
Another option is to contact Graftek (www.graftek.com) or ImageMill (www.imagemill-tech.com). They have created drivers for third party image acquisition boards in the past and they may have one for your Epix board.
A third option, of course, is to upgrade your Epix board to an NI IMAQ board. Your sales contact within NI may even be able to give you a discount on the trade in, but I can't guarantee it.
Good luck!
Kyle V

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Has anyone has developed a driver which uses labview to control an EPIX(R)D PCI Digital Video Capture Board?

We have an EPIX(R) D PCI Digital Video Capture Board from EPIX Inc. worked with Image Pro Plus and a
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n provide this driver for us. Thank you very much.

George. You probably don't have many options with the Epix board. However, if your Epix software enables you to save files to disk, then you can open them from LabVIEW and process them with Vision or Vision Builder.
Another option is to contact Graftek (www.graftek.com) or ImageMill (www.imagemill-tech.com). They have created drivers for third party image acquisition boards in the past and they may have one for your Epix board.
A third option, of course, is to upgrade your Epix board to an NI IMAQ board. Your sales contact within NI may even be able to give you a discount on the trade in, but I can't guarantee it.
Good luck!
Kyle V

TV@ Plus, what video capture settings to use?

I have a TV@ Plus and am unsure what video capture settings to use. I've had it for several months and solved my audio problems and need to know what Video Input Format, Capture Format (Profile), Capture - Size, Quality, Bit Rate and Audio Format settings to use. Should I use the same settings for all input sources or do I use different settings for CATV and S-video inputs? It seems to be OK with my current settings as far as capture and playback goes, I'm OK on the hardware part but with tech detatails I'm a bit .
I will be using it to capture from CATV, DVD and VCR input sources for later recording to DVD's. I use a GoDVD! CT-2 connected to the S-video input for recording Macrovision protected media to the HDD.
My computer sound is monitor mounted stereo speakers.
Thanks in advance for any helpful replies.

Quote from: HenryW on 12-September-06, 04:25:48
I have a TV@ Plus and am unsure what video capture settings to use. I've had it for several months and solved my audio problems and need to know what Video Input Format, Capture Format (Profile), Capture - Size, Quality, Bit Rate and Audio Format settings to use.
I already had transferred and converted some of my old VHS and VCD movie collections into DVDs (using Composite Input).
The higher the bit rate the better quality video output you will have - but bigger file size.
To give you an example:
A 2 hour video captured on MPEG set at 4000/bps will be translated it to 3.58GB. More than enough to be written on a 4.7 DVD.
For audio bit rates, you can choose from 128/bps to 224/bps. As for me I set it to 224/bps. Again the bigger bit rates the better audio output. And don't forget to slide up the audio record level to 100%. That will give you a better and clearer recorded audio output.

Video capture card to use with WebEx

Hi all,
could someone share a list of compatible video capture cards to use in a PC in a WebEx session?
The ideia is to use an external camera (instead of a web cam) to capture the video and I would like to know if this input will be sent as video (if WebEx will recognize the capture card as an input).
Thanks
Regards

thanks for the advice and links... I was having trouble making sense of barefoot.
I have heard that a card that works well for gaming will not necessarily work well for CAD based programs like Maya. can any one confirm or deny this? I can use the software for things like this but I am pretty low on the food chain when it comes to hardware issues.
It is possible I being too picky wanting an affordable card that:
a.) Has been tested successfully by Autodesk with Maya
and
b.)is available to be installed in a Mac Pro
....comments?

Web-based video capture and detection using web cam

to anyone:
is it possible to capture video and detect motion using a web cam in a web based application?how is it done?
if not possible, what solutions can you suggest so that i can put it on a web based application?
tnx for the help..

Ironman wrote:
I'm sure it could be achieved by capturing individual frames, say one every second or so, and then doing a checksum on the image bytes and compare it with the previous frames checksum - if they were different then the frames are different and therefore motion can be assumed. If you don't want to check the entire image you can choose a tile, say in the centre of the picture, and checksum this. I use this technique to detect frozen images if CCTV cameras are causing problems. This other thread may also help :
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5233760
Wow, now that is good idea. I guess you don't need external hardware to check for movement. Brilliant!

Video capture from Web using Tiger

Hope this is right place for this:
Need to capture (via Safari or Firefox) the video (visual and sound) such as at this site: http://www.indigoplatforms.tv/recorded/video/208
I tried Download Helper in Firefox but it does not work. Can't find a way in iTunes nor QT Pro.
Perian in Firefox doesn't work.
Any ideas??

I should have added that I do not understand this part of that site and could not tell if they are Windoze stuff or what:
+KeepVid and YouTube Downloader are download-helper websites that allow users to provide them with the video links. These videos will hence be catalogued and uploaded to the site. They are not video hosting websites like YouTube or Dailymotion; they provide a browser-based service from as the user only has to enter the videoâ€™s URL in the field provided and choose its source from the list. The file formats in FLV can be converted into Mpeg video formats on Keepvid.+
+Download Links:+
+KeepVid: http://keepvid.com/+
+Youtube Downloader: http://www.youddl.com/+

What video capture setting to use???

I'm using FCP 4.1 for some non-broadcast, DVD applications. I'm looking for BetaSP quality output but have no idea what setting will give me good image quality without slowing my Mac. Since I use a Kona LS card, there seem to be almost an endless amount of options. Particularly between 8 bit and 10 bit. I've read about the differences but there are just so many options I don't know where to begin. Are there any standard suggestions for a jumping off point? Thanks.

Holey Moley, I've got one of those machines. Complete with the scsi card and the internal scsi raid. And a cinewave card. Anybody want a cinewave card?
Try an 8bit- that's about what SP gives you, but if you've got a graphic- intensive show, you might be better served at 10-bit.

Video Capture using VFWCapture

Hi,
I have been looking in the JMStudio source code for a solution to my problem, but no luck so far. Specifically, I have been concentrating on VFWManual, which uses the VFWCapture class and sets the desired format. However, I never can get any video capture when I run the VFWManual class.
Anyway, here's my problem: I have a 4-Port USB hub to which I have attached three cameras. The hub itself is connected to one USB port on the computer. So, the computer only vfw://0 as the single source for all three cameras. Now, the first time I ran JMStudio, it gave me a neat little dialog box titled "Video Source" in which I was allowed to choose between the three cameras. The second time I ran it, it decided to use my previously selected camera but that's a different problem entirely.
Here's my main question: Is there any way I can programatically switch between the cameras connected to the hub? I believe the answer lies in the VFWCapture class, but I don't quite know how to use it. From testing the VFWManual class, I could tell that the dialog which allowing me to choose between cameras was triggered by VFWCapture.capDriverDeviceConnect(). However, since I can't see the source code to VFWCapture, I don't know how those three cameras were found inside VFWCapture.
I have been looking at the tutorials and sample code, and I finally got video capture to work using the DataSourceReader sample code from Sun's JMF website.
Any ideas for programatically switching between those three cameras?
Thanks.

If your cameras do have a TWAIN driver, one
possibility is to use the Java Twain packageI have tried the Java Twain package, but it has the same problem. It views the hub connected to three cameras as one source.
I would prefer JMF because it has a media player, and my theory is that since I could use a JMF GUI to switch between cameras, I should be able to do it programatically. However, this requires inside knowledge about com.sun.media.vfw classes such as VFWCapture.
One thing that really doesn't help is the fact that JMF source code is "temporarily" unavailable to the community. The other thing that doesn't help is that a USB API for Java is in its beginning stages of development.
Any other ideas?
[email protected]

Capture cards to use with JMF....

Hello, I need to buy a video capture card to use with JMF in order to get a video signal and send it using a stream channel.
Somebody can help me and post a list of compatible capture cards with JMF?.
I think on buy a PINNACLE 500 PCI but i have read that it is incompatible with JMF.
Thanks.

Creative webcam live should work, most webcams will work... at least under Windows. I've 2 older creative webcams that work under Windows.
Not sure about Linux support though...
Ps. there's a Java Media Framework section of this forum, where all the JMF related questions should be posted.
regards,
Owen

Best video capturing program until FCP5 is released?

This question is for the videoguys out there
I bought an intel imac and was relying on FCP5 but now I realize it is not universal until march. I have tons of video to capture from mini DV and I want to have it all captured and ready for editing in FCP5 when it is available. I want to make sure it captures in the right AVI format for FCP5. What is the best video capturing program to use in the mean time until FCP5 is released?

I thought about imovie but I am not familar with the different formats imovie can capture in. I need a compatiable format for FCP5

AV Foundation video capture.

Dear sir,
I have done video capture from camera using AVFoundation in OSX 10.7 and 10.8. I am facing problems in getting expected fps rate. For ex: If I set 30fps, it will work fine. If I set anywhere between 15-29fps, it is always capturing at 15fps rate, eventhough camera is able to give me at 30fps rate. I am not getting how I can configure the video camera device to capture at this rate or else, whether this is a bug in AVFoundation on OSX. Please help me out to sort out this issue.
Thanks and Regards,
Anand

Hi BDAqua,
I am facing this problem. It is capturing at either 10, 15, 30 fps rates. Even it is not giving me captured output at 25fps rate with Logitech C920 HD camera, it is rolling back to 15fps. Why this is not possible with AVFoundation, whether this is a bug with these APIs. Please suggest me how to file a bug like this to Apple.
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Anyone using Elgato Video Capture with good results?

I've got some VHS tapes that I want to edit in iMovie '11 (and/or FCE).
Viewed on a TV monitor, the image quality of the tapes varies from acceptable to very good - but I am very disappointed with the quality of the video once imported, using Elgato Video Capture, to my MBP. It is very indistinct and washed out. Only the audio remains as clear as the original.
Anyone had any success with using Video Capture to convert old tapes?
Any advice and/or feedback would be much appreciated!

conran wrote:
Thanks Coolmax - I tried that, but no discernible improvement unfortunately.
These are the tech specs from the Elgato site:
Video resolution: 640×480 (4:3) or 640×360 (16:9)
Video format: H.264 at 1.4 MBit/sec or MPEG-4 at 2.4 MBit/sec
Audio: AAC, 48kHZ, 128 kBit/sec
I've tried both H.264 and MPEG-4 without much success. The resulting footage is always extremely grainy and 'muddy'. Any other ideas?
If I understand this correctly, Elgato can save your footage either in H.264 or MPEG-4 and you tried both. If the original file plays with ok quality and the resulting footage after being finalized by iMovie 11 look worse, I think we need to determine what are you finalizing to?
In "Export to Quicktime", you can choose the compressor to "none". Do this with a short clip as the resulting file will be big. Play back this video.
If there is a degradation in video, then you know it is iMovie 11 process that is causing it. From here on, you can further compress the video using Handbrake and adjust the settings to give best quality vs size.
There are software available on the PC side that can enhance and resize an already weak VHS captured footage and make it look better before you import it into iMovie 11. But this require quite a bit of computer horsepower to complete it in any acceptable time frame.

Hauppauge High Definition Video Capture

Does anyone have experience of the "Hauppauge HD PVR USB Hi-def H.264 Video Capture Device,high Definition USB 2.0 Video Capture With Hardware H.264 Video Encoders"?
If so what do you think of it?
Leaving aside PVR (it isn't in my opinion as it needs to be connected to a PC for recording) and the over emphasis on recording gaming sessions it sounds as though it might be a handy High Definition equivalent of the Canopus ADVC analogue to digital converter range.
Cheers,
Neale
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

Neale,
I have never used one, nor have I read many articles from those, who have used it. The exception has been some users, who have had issues with Hauppage capture cards, but I do not know of any, who used this device.
Good luck, and wish that I could help, but will follow the thread, in hopes of learning something new.
Hunt

4600 video capturing stuttering on picture using mpeg

Good afternoon.
I'm new to video capturing but seem to have a bit of a problem. I can capture fine in the bundled WinProducer when I use the AVI setting but it generates some rather large files, 300meg/minute or so. When i set it to capture at the mpeg setting it does the audio fine but the picture is stop/start, plays a second pauses a while plays a bit more etc while the audio merrily carries on without a problem.
Would anyone have an idea on what I might have set wrong etc please?
Thanks.

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Originally posted by Hypacharry
Good afternoon.
I'm new to video capturing but seem to have a bit of a problem. I can capture fine in the bundled WinProducer when I use the AVI setting but it generates some rather large files, 300meg/minute or so. When i set it to capture at the mpeg setting it does the audio fine but the picture is stop/start, plays a second pauses a while plays a bit more etc while the audio merrily carries on without a problem.
Would anyone have an idea on what I might have set wrong etc please?
Thanks.
Good Morning.
I can tell you many things about your problem:
1- what chipsets do you have??
AMD (above 760 (762 & 768 ) and Intel (almost everything above 815) will work fine (smooth i´d say), but ALI, SIS and VIA won´t do the job.
2- You have to pay attention to the encoder card you are using ( if using one)
Matrox capturers are very conflictive X( (so don´t use matrox) instead use another video capturer
3- How much memory are using?
above 512 Mb should work
4- have you ever considered forming an array?
it will increase your data I/O
5- pay attention to the order of the cards on the pci slots
Some cards have to be in a specific order.
6- what OS are you using???
W2k pro & Wxp pro are good for the job you are intending to (you should think to move to one of them)
7-If you want to have good video quality, you must think in buying an encoder, no matters how fast your Geforce is, at the end it won´t substitute a video encoder card
) (hope this can help you with your problem)
good luck!

Image acquisition using video capture card

I am developing an application for Single fiber fusion splicer...my application basically has to capture the picture from the splicer using a Video capture card...Is it possible to use IMAQ session to get the picture from the card,store it a file and display the same using labview??or is there any other suitable way instead of IMAQ???

Cyril,
A typical image acquisition system consists of the following
components:
Camera » Framegrabber board » Image Acquisition Software »
Image Processing Software
The software in this application is of course LabVIEW. The ease of integration of it with your
camera and framegrabber board is dependent on a number of variables and I
discuss that further in the rest of this post.
Camera
It looks like you already have a camera picked out, but I could not find
any information on the VHR-1000 on the internet. Who is the manufacturer? Can you provide a link to information
available about it online? NI does
not actually make cameras; we simply connect with third party
cameras. We have a list of the
various cameras that are tested and supported by our hardware available at
http://www.ni.com/cameras
Here are two more documents that will discuss camera options in more
detail:
Choosing A Camera
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3087
Image Acquisition
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/2808
Framegrabber
board
The framegrabber board is what will be responsible for taking the signals
from your camera, either digital or analog, manipulating them
appropriately, and storing them in computer memory.
The framegrabber board you choose will largely depend on the camera you
choose and the interface it uses. (Interfaces are discussed in the Image
Acquistion document mentioned earlier)
It looks like you already have a Domino Maxi framegrabber board, which
LabVIEW may or may not be able to interface with. Could you please provide more
information and possibly a link to some info on this framegrabber board?
Choose NI Vision Hardware
http://www.ni.com/vision/hardware.htm
Image
Acquisition Software
The Image Acquisition software is the software responsible for bringing
images into the computer in conjunction with the framegrabber board or
IEEE-1394 bus. Depending on your
interface, you will need either NI-IMAQ (framegrabber) or NI-IMAQdx
(IEEE-1394).
Image
Processing Software
For image processing in LabVIEW, you will need the Vision Development
Module. It’s product page can be
found here:
Vision Development Module
http://www.ni.com/vision/vdm.htm
This software will enable you to do any type of image processing that your
application may require.
Those are the basic components of an image acquisition
system. Hopefully you will be able to
follow those links and gain a better understanding of what exactly you need to
be able to setup the kind of system you are looking for. This presentation provides a great deal of
general information and may be able to answer some more specific questions you
have:
Imaging Fundamentals
http://www.ni.com/vision/vdm.htm
It also discusses camera and lens selection with respect to
the image size and detail that you need.
Please let us know if you have any further questions related to this.
Regards,
Luke H

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