Hello Kurt, to my opinion a camera module is definitely one of the most needed and most attractive for Care2x.
Regarding VfW, it is to say that Video-for-Windows as a standard is out. "Modern" MS-Windows machines use DirectX/WDM driver models to connect digital cameras. See http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/stream/vidcap/default.mspx for more details. See also a short intro here: http://www.1394imaging.com/resources/backgnd/software/what_is_wdm/ I suppose most Care2x clients will operate under MS-Win OS, so WDM will be the appropriate technology to use. If you buy a camera from a specialized vendor like http://www.theimagingsource.com you get WDM (and VfW) drivers, including SDK (VB and C++), Documentation etc for free. Btw, if you need video capture for notebooks this vendor also sells a very useful Video-to-firewire converter box http://www.theimagingsource.com/prod/grab/dfg13941/dfg13941.htm to allow notebooks (with PCMCIA-port) to capture full 640x480 / 30 fps Video. You will need this box if your video source is not USB or firewire but Standard-Video composite or Y/C. Surely one can also use some Video-USB Box like WinTV PVR USB http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvrusb_datasheet.htm for this task. But I really do not know if and how it integrates via SDK. A cheap (79USD) -quasi ready made- ActiveX control based on VB and WDM is sold by http://www.fathsoft.com/videocapx.html. It works perfectly. I do not know much about Imaging for Linux. Anyway here are some -maybe useful- links. http://www.nmt.edu/~kscott/video/ http://www.shallowsky.com/limaging.html Greetings to wonderful Southern Africa ! Alex ============================== Alexander H�lzel Vorstand Tech.-Wiss. EUTROPA AG Oelm�llerstrasse 9 D-82166 Gr�felfing Tel. 089-87130900 Fax. 089-87130902 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt Brauchli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [Care2002-developers] digital camera > Hello > > > Care2x has no module for direct communication to a digital camera yet. > > Is this a desired module? > > I have been doing something similar for our iPath project, where we have > a module that allows remote control of a microscope. What we did is > split the application into two parts: > - a web application for viewing and uploading images (PHP/PERL) > - a client application that talks with the camera and with the webserver > (Visual C++) > > If you need to create a large amount of images, such a split can be very > useful, since a local applciation at the client side can be much more > efficient to work with. > > Such a client-app could e.g. look like this: > - Get a PatientID (e.g. barcode) > - client verifies if patient exists and shows initials for check > - drag images to a drag&drop and client uploads automatically to server > or with VfW (Video Camera), just click a button to store image on > server > > If there is interested for such a module, I could help to develop it. > Please let me know if anyone thinks such a module is needed. > > regards > Kurt > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Kurt Brauchli-Haase > Telemedicine Unit, University of Transkei > Umtata, South Africa > tel: +27 47 502 2914 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Care2002-developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
