3rd Party Solution - ActiveDcam

ActiveDcam is an ActiveX-based universal SDK designed to provide developers with a rapid access to FireWire (IEEE-1394) digital cameras. Unlike a standard C/C++ API, it doesn't require an expert level programming and can be used virtually in any programming environment. When using ActiveDcam, you simply drop one or several ActiveDcam objects on the surface of your application - and you have full control over multiple AVT cameras, plus the ability to display the live video right away. It literally takes minutes to develop a simple application while having very basic programming skills. You can even insert the control into an MS Word or PowerPoint document and have the live video embedded right into your presentation!

Active Dcam provides a built-in GUI that allows for the full control over the cameras features and offers a number of additional functions, such as built-in Bayer interpolation, saving images in JPEG and TIFF (including storing 16-bit images), AVI recording, pseudo-coloring, anti-tearing,rotation, scrolling and zooming. A number of ActiveDcam methods provide an instant access to individual pixels, lines and a complete 2D array of image data. The setup package includes sample applications with a source code written in VB, VC++, VC#, VB.NET, Delphi. The latest version of ActiveDcam includes TWAIN and DirectShow drivers to target not only developers, but also end-users who want to interface AVT 1394 cameras to their favorite imaging and video applications.

1394b (800 mbps) support, highly-optimized thread-scheduling and proprietary video conversion algorithms make ActiveDcam the fastest 1394 SDK

Please click on the following links to download the data sheet and software from ActiveDcam.

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