S-Video display and capture

[ignagni]

I am trying to migrate a Labview application from a Mac G3 to an IBM Thinkpad that involves data aquisition and s-video display/capture. The Thinkpad has an s-video input and I have been able to display the desired video using the software that came with the Thinkpad. I also have a DAQCard-AI 16XE-50 that should do the job for the data acquisition and control that I need with Labview.

My question is, can IMAQ vision interface with the s-video input to display and capture images? I would like to be able to display the video signal and upon user input grab a frame for further analysis.

[BruceAmmons]

IMAQ Vision will not be able to read directly from the S-Video input, since it is not NI hardware. You will have to find drivers that let you capture an image. It may be a generic input format, such as VFW, that you can find drivers for. Otherwise, you would have to find the driver API and write your own.

Bruce