some guidence needed
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I bought 16 channel video card that i want to use to build a surveillance system. The software that the company provides is pretty much overkill for what i want use it for. Also the package weighs in at 2gb and doesn't have any option to install only the components that i need. I'd like to develop my own software to communicate with this card directly. Does anyone know if it would be possible?
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
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I bought 16 channel video card that i want to use to build a surveillance system. The software that the company provides is pretty much overkill for what i want use it for. Also the package weighs in at 2gb and doesn't have any option to install only the components that i need. I'd like to develop my own software to communicate with this card directly. Does anyone know if it would be possible?
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
teejayem wrote:
I'd like to develop my own software to communicate with this card directly. Does anyone know if it would be possible?
:confused: Doesn't the fact that the card is delivered with software for communicating with it answer your question? You may consider item #2 in the list provided in this post[^].
"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote
"High speed never compensates for wrong direction!" - unknown -
teejayem wrote:
I'd like to develop my own software to communicate with this card directly. Does anyone know if it would be possible?
:confused: Doesn't the fact that the card is delivered with software for communicating with it answer your question? You may consider item #2 in the list provided in this post[^].
"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote
"High speed never compensates for wrong direction!" - unknownThe software is a separate download. All i want to make is a viewer and i don't think i should have to install a 2gb file (that probably expands to 4gb) just to use their viewer. As far as your item #2 comment, I don't believe that i asked anyone to provide me with any code for my question. I simply asked if there was a way to communicate with the hardware if the drivers were installed on the machine. How much more specific do i need to be?
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
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The software is a separate download. All i want to make is a viewer and i don't think i should have to install a 2gb file (that probably expands to 4gb) just to use their viewer. As far as your item #2 comment, I don't believe that i asked anyone to provide me with any code for my question. I simply asked if there was a way to communicate with the hardware if the drivers were installed on the machine. How much more specific do i need to be?
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
Does the hardware company offer a 3rd party development. kit ?
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I bought 16 channel video card that i want to use to build a surveillance system. The software that the company provides is pretty much overkill for what i want use it for. Also the package weighs in at 2gb and doesn't have any option to install only the components that i need. I'd like to develop my own software to communicate with this card directly. Does anyone know if it would be possible?
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
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The software is a separate download. All i want to make is a viewer and i don't think i should have to install a 2gb file (that probably expands to 4gb) just to use their viewer. As far as your item #2 comment, I don't believe that i asked anyone to provide me with any code for my question. I simply asked if there was a way to communicate with the hardware if the drivers were installed on the machine. How much more specific do i need to be?
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
teejayem wrote:
As far as your item #2 comment, I don't believe that i asked anyone to provide me with any code for my question.
No, you did not. But item #2 says "be specific".
teejayem wrote:
I simply asked if there was a way to communicate with the hardware if the drivers were installed on the machine. How much more specific do i need to be?
It depends on how specific answer you'd like. Given the information you've provided so far my answer can only be "yes, it's possible". Of course you'll need to know "how" to communicate with the card, what protocol it uses and so on. But you didn't provide any info that can be used to guide regarding this. Perhaps you can find it in the documentation for your card. Somehow I find it hard to believe that you want a simple 'yes' or 'no' to be able to continue your work to the question "if it's possible".
"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote
"High speed never compensates for wrong direction!" - unknown -
The software is a separate download. All i want to make is a viewer and i don't think i should have to install a 2gb file (that probably expands to 4gb) just to use their viewer. As far as your item #2 comment, I don't believe that i asked anyone to provide me with any code for my question. I simply asked if there was a way to communicate with the hardware if the drivers were installed on the machine. How much more specific do i need to be?
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
If the drivers are installed then you could try out some video capture program to see if it can use those drivers (i think you can try Media Player Classic to open capture devices for input) and if you can then it is possible to write your own progrqm using DirectShow, PROBABLY.
> The problem with computers is that they do what you tell them to do and not what you want them to do. <
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Does the hardware company offer a 3rd party development. kit ?
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If the drivers are installed then you could try out some video capture program to see if it can use those drivers (i think you can try Media Player Classic to open capture devices for input) and if you can then it is possible to write your own progrqm using DirectShow, PROBABLY.
> The problem with computers is that they do what you tell them to do and not what you want them to do. <