What's New in Version 2.0 since Version 1.41

Description of the changes from IC Imaging Control 1.41 to IC Imaging Control 2.0.

Video Capture Device Properties

Video Capture Device Properties provide a generic, hardware independent and extendable way of controlling the settings of a video capture device. In the following, the shortcut VCD is used for Video Capture Device.

DCAM Prop DLL

The DCAM Prop DLL is not needed anymore. The special DCAM features can now be accessed and manipulated, using the appropriate VCDProperties.

A detailed list of equivalent functionality for all functions and procedures of the DCAM Prop DLL can be found in the technical article DCAM_Prop_DLL

Loading and saving Codec data

The procedure for loading and saving codec properties has been changed. The AviCodecData class has been removed, and the access to the data is now handled through the members of FilterInfoObject.

For more information about loading and saving codec properties, see:

• FilterInfoObject::getCodecData
• FilterInfoObject::setCodecData
• FilterInfoObject::isCodecDataAvailable

Serializing the device state

A new set of functions allows you to save and restore the settings of the currently opened device in a string or a file:

• Grabber::saveDeviceState
• Grabber::saveDeviceStateToFile
• Grabber::loadDeviceState
• Grabber::loadDeviceStateFromFile

Detecting video signal on a frame grabber input channel

With the new methods of the Grabber class, it is possible to determine whether a video device is connected to an input channel of a frame grabber:

• Grabber::isSignalDetectedAvailable
• Grabber::getSignalDetected

Frame Rate

Several methods have been added to control the frame rates of devices.

• Grabber::isFrameRateListAvailable
• Grabber::getAvailableFPS
• Grabber::getCurrentActualFPS
• Grabber::getCurrentMaxAvailableFPS
• Grabber::getFPS
• Grabber::setFPS

Counting dropped frames

It is possible to retrieve the number of frames that have been dropped or not dropped with the new functions:

• Grabber::isCountOfFramesDroppedAvailable
• Grabber::getCountOfFramesDropped
• Grabber::getCountOfFramesNotDropped

Pause the live mode

The new Grabber::setPauseLive and Grabber::getPauseLive methods allow you to pause both the live display and the delivery of frames to the ImageAvailable event.

Built-in Dialogs

ICImagingControl comes with 2 dialogs that allow the user to open a device and adjust device settings.

• Grabber::showDevicePage shows a dialog box that lets the user open a device and configure the video norm, video format, input channel, frame rate and flip states.
• Grabber::showVCDPropertyPage shows a dialog allowing the user to adjust the VCD Properties.

Device recognition

With the new unique name and the display name of devices, it is possible to open specific devices regardless of whether there is more that one device of the same type connected to the computer.

• Grabber::openDevByUniqueName
• Grabber::openDevByDisplayName
• VideoCaptureDeviceItem::getUniqueName
• VideoCaptureDeviceItem::getDisplayName
• VideoCaptureDeviceItem::getBaseName

Saving image buffers

Several functions have been added to save the contents of an image buffer. Images can be saved in JPEG and various BMP formats.

• saveToFileJPEG
• saveToFileBMP

OverlayBitmap

The following methods have been added to the OverlayBitmap class:

• OverlayBitmap::drawFrameRect
• OverlayBitmap::drawSolidEllipse
• OverlayBitmap::drawFrameEllipse
• OverlayBitmap::getColorformat

New Features Reference

List of all new features

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