capture video from front panel

[made it so]

My application displays real time TV video on the front panel of my VI using an activeX container. I need to perform an intensity analysis of this signal but can't find a way to convert it to an "image" for use with the IMAQ utilities. Can anyone recommend a technique.

[chutla]

There used to be a program called "camcorder" that came with Office97 that made an AVI from whatever you had on your desktop. I'm not sure if that runs witn Win2000/XP, but it might be worth a try. I'm sure someone has an updated equivalent to Camcorder, as well.

Good Luck!

eric

[JellyBeans]

Try "Camtasia Studio" or "Snagit".

[Dustin_W]

To do this directly in LabVIEW, you will need to obtain a 2-D array of pixel values. You can then use the Vision function 'IMAQ Array to Image.vi.' You can then use any of the vision algorithms to analyze the picture.