HELP! LV Image to compressed bitmap conversion too slow

[vk3drb-2]

Hi.

On a normal fast PC I have no problem, but on a single board computer (slow) PC latency is becoming a huge issue.

I simply grab LV pictures from an Imaging Source camera, resize the image data to a low res bitmap (about 171 x 128), reverse the image horizontally and send the images through a TCP socket. The speed of doing this is too slow. Using timers to analyse the probelm, I found the main culprit is the Picture to Pixmap.vi which is an image converter, which takes up over half the time.  

I am not using the Imaq Vision software, just the free NI-IMAQ Vision and Motion add-on with LV 2012.

Is there a better (faster) way to do this?

I do have the choice of Imaging Source's vi's to produce a picture or an IMAQ "Image Out" (purple wire). Is there a way to quickly convert the "Image Out" to a bitmap, or a quivker way to convert the LV Picture to a bitmap? DShoudl I consider using Active X components instead?

A very frustrating problmem, I have spent days on. Any help will be gratefully received.

cheers,

David

[MoviJOHN]

If there is no need to display the picture in a picture control, I would recommend trying to intercept the image data at the capture point.  How are you grabbing the image in the first place?  Is it a color image/B/W?

Unfortunately, the VI you are having performance issues with is locked, so if there were a way to optimize it, it is beyond the control of anyone outside of NI Dev Team.