Has anyone used native Windows ActiveX (like MSVidCtl) to bring in Live Video?

[tbd]

Hi All,

      Has anyone embedded a live [composit] video-source in LabVIEW using nothing more than a simple Windows-compatible video-capture card and some native-Windows activeX control on the front panel?  Sorry if there has been a previous discussion and answer about this - there are a lot of kinda-sorta (non-applicable) related posts that involve IMAQ, cameras and expensive video hardware.

I selected MSVidCtl for a Front-panel ActiveX container and its methods/properties look intruiging, but maybe it's useless.

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks/Cheers!

[tbd]

well, MSVidCtl (in WinXP) seems to handle lots of picture/video-file types easily...

(still working on streaming/live video into this control...)

[Spex]

Hi tbd,

This sounds like an interesting endevor.  I have not tried this and I am not sure how feasible it is. Good luck. 

I looked around a bit, and I found this thread that talks about the Video for Windows API and includes and old, but apparently effective, example program. This may be a good starting  point.

Cheers,

[tbd]

Hi Spex,

      Thanks!  Downloaded the [LV4 !] .zip, will check it out an report-back.

Cheers.