Getting programatically camera type in labwindows cvi

[JLCM]

Dear Sirs:

I am studying the posibility of develop an application that could work both with IEEE1394 or standard cameras -connected to a NI capture card- but image capture functions are different from IMAQ IEEE1394 and IMAQ vision.

So I am thinking in obtaining the type of my camera in the start of my application, after that I could use this information to select the appropiate functions. Could you help me? I havent found any function or procedure to obtain this info.

After reading the Document with ID: 2KADUK6W I think that it must be possible using some type of reading of the interface file, but i am not sure.

Thank you very much in advance


Best Regards.

[BB_Phil]

Hello JLCM,

One way to detect whether or not the camera is a firewire camera or standard camera is by the camera ID that is assigned in MAX. A firewire camera is given the name cam0, cam1, etc. and non-firewire cameras will be given the name img0, img1, etc. When a user specifies which camera is used in the program, the name will give away what type of camera it is!

Hope this helps.

BB_Phil