[vtkusers] vtkMILVideoSource - Capture Multiple Inputs

[David Gobbi]

Hi Kyle,

The vtkMILVideoSource is only set up to capture a single video stream.
You could try playing with SetMILAppID and SetMILSysID to get two
MILVideoSources to share a single card, but I doubt that would work.

    David


On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:36 AM, dream_noir <kyle.charbonneau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a bit of a problem I've been trying to solve but looking at the
> documentation and code isn't really getting me anywhere. I'm curious whether
> or not vtkMILVideoSource supports capturing from one Matrox card but
> multiple inputs on that card at the same time? I'm working with Meteor II
> cards that can supposedly support 2 RGB or 6 BW channels at once but I
> haven't been able to get it to work with VTK.
>
> Simply creating two vtkMILVideoSource objects and setting them to the same
> card but different channels doesn't work as the second instance will fail to
> initialize.
>
> After looking at the VTK code and some Matrox documentation I'm thinking vtk
> might not be setup to get video from more than once channel at once, but
> before I write a new vtk class to do this I want to be sure. Thanks.
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