Video and LabVIEW

Hi,
I've written an app in labview which analyses PAL video footage at the field
level. To do this I have to save the video as a series of graphics files and
then load them one at a time using an IMAQ function. My question is, is it
possible to load a frame (ideally a field) directly from the video footage
(mpeg) from within labview? This would save me a lot of messing about with
the video before I got to actually analysing it.
Any ideas?
cheers,
and.
Andrew Churchill
Oxford, U.K.
[email protected]

Try to search on the net some tools to convert MPEG to a series of BMPs or something else (for example, you can do it with 3DStudio but is not the cheapest solution ... :-) ).
Another solution could be screen capture, but not elegant at all.

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