PXI-5421 video generation library???

[AlanKnowler]

I have the requirement to create a monochrome 625 line video signal from a  .BMP file using a PXI 5421 arb .

Before I start looking into creating a VI, is there already any functionality available in Labview natively to do this?

I notice in the post...

    http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=310&message.id=871&query.id=5922674#M871

that a video generation library is described, which appears to work with the 5421, where can I find this?

Having spent a number of years using LabWindows, I'm very new to  LabView, so any help will be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks

Alan

[AlanKnowler]

I've looked into this a little bit further, and I think that the VI's;  niVgen_*****  are part of the NI VideoMASTER product.

Are these VI's available elsewhere as I do not need the extensive capabilities of  'VideoMASTER' - just need to create a raster image from a  bmp file.

Regards

Alan

[Mark_SAI]

Hi Alan,

You are indeed correct, pre-packaged functionality for video signals from a PXI-5421 is packaged as part of Videomaster.

If you only want to generate a 625 video signal and cannot budget for Videomaster then creating your own VI is the way to go (after all, its just an arbitrary waveform that you have to design at runtime). The place to start would be finding an accurate timing specification/diagram for your signal of interest that you can start to figure out what patterns you should generate inside your VI.