IMAQdx change fps adquiring with USB camera

Hello,
Im working with Labview to process images captured with an USB camera. I would like to know how to change the adquiring conditions of the camera, in special the frame rate per second (fps), the video mode and the resolution. I need to change this parameters in real time, while the program is running.
Thank you.
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Hello again!
I have yet not found a single camera where the frame rate was not changable. Maybe you need to change the video mode.
I have created some snippets for you to play with (attached). Drag and drop the images to a vi block diagram to copy the code (You might have to save the images to disk first).
Best regards
Attachments:
Get camera attributes types and values.png ‏54 KB
Set camera VideoMode.png ‏66 KB

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