Datapath VisionAV User Manual - Page 12

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Application Overview

The application displays the connected source in a window; it has the following features:

• Scales the data to fit in the window

• Ability to set up sources accurately (settings automatically saved)

• Save a single frame to a file in one of the following formats:

BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG

• Print a single frame

• Maintain the aspect ratio of the displayed captured data

• Cropping

• Display text over the data (on-screen display)

• Command line interface

• Help file documenting all features

Note:

The supplied drivers and software require that you are using:

• Windows® XP, Windows® Vista, Windows® Server 2003, Windows® Server 2008 or Windows® 7

(x86 and x64 Operating Systems)

• CD / DVD ROM Drive

Using the card with other Datapath products

The VisionAV captures data and stores it in an on-board video buffer. This data is then copied using DMA

to the host system for display, storage or streaming.

When a Datapath graphics card is used, VisionAV transfers the data directly to the graphics card thereby

increasing performance. The VisionSDI2 sends the relevant portions of each captured image to each

display channel and instructs each channel to use its graphics engine to render the data. This fully utilises

the hardware and dramatically increases performance.

When a Direct3D compatible graphics card is used the data can be transferred direct to the graphics card

in a similar manner to the Datapath graphics card with the same benefit of non-tearing captures.

When the data is displayed on a non Datapath graphics card, the VisionAV sends the data to system

memory or direct to the graphics card, dependant on the software used for display.