Can I use a camera for application in Labview and VBAI at the same time ?

[Yoann.B]

Dear all,

I'm trying to save an AVI file with Labview and make an image process with VBAI at the same time, in one machine.

The error : "Camera already in use" displayed.

My Camera is a GIGE and I work with Imaqdx. I've test the multicast mode but it only operate with several machines.

How can I do this ?

Thank's to help me,

Yoann B

[PackersFan]

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The error : "Camera already in use" displayed.

How can I do this ?

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Pretty sure you can't.

[Yoann.B]

Thank you for your answer PackersFan.

So it's impossible to an inspection with VBAI and Save the video (of this inspection) with one camera?

[PackersFan]

I'm not necessarily saying that.  It's been a while since I've used VBAI, so I don't remember all of the capabilities, but if VBAI can do the inspection and recording at the same time, you should be fine.

The trick is that only one program can access the camera at the same time.  That application reserves the camera, thus making it unavailable to others.

[Yoann.B]

Ok, I understand what you say.

Thank you for your answer, all that is left for me to do now is to focus on the possibility that VBAI can help me.

Yoann B

[ChristopheC]

VBAI has an image logging step that you can use to save the image to disk.

[ChristopheC]

If you want to share the image acquire with VBAI with a separate LabVIEW application, you can create an image system shared variable that can be accessed by LabVIEW. This white paper explains how to do it.

http://www.ni.com/white-paper/12322/en