DV driver for
LabVIEW / IMAQ Vision 
version 1.1 (Februrary 2006)


Windows 2000/XP
About the driver:

The “DV driver for LabVIEW” is a software tool for interfacing DV digital video camcorders, with the National Instruments LabVIEW environment. This software will allow you to build LabVIEW applications based on DV camcorders devices.

The "DV driver for LabVIEW" features the following functionnalities :
  • Enumerate the available devices.
  • Acquire images from a DV camcorder, into an IMAQ image or a LabVIEW 2D array.
  • Control a camcorder mode (play, pause, rewind, forward, record, seek, etc...).
  • Get the SMPTE timecodes of the acquired images.
  • Display a camcorder video stream into a floating window.
  • Save a camcorder video stream into an AVI file (up to 30 frames/second).
Hardware Requirements:
  • IEEE-1394 OHCI board.
  • IEEE-1394 6 pins to 4 pins cable
  • Digital Video Camcorder with DV, iLink, Firewire output
  • IBM PC or compatible computer with Pentium III class or later processor.

 

Software Requirements:
  • Microsoft DirectX version 9.0 runtime (supplied).
  • Microsoft Windows NT 2000/XP Operating system.
  • National Instruments LabVIEW 7.0 or later.
  • National Instruments Vision Development Module 7.0 or later, OR National Instruments NI-IMAQ 3.0 or later.