OCTANE™ Personal Video Programmer's Guide
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OCTANE^™ Personal Video Programmer's Guide

Document Number: 007-3595-001

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Table of Contents

About This Guide

Audience
Structure of This Document
Other Documents
Conventions

1. Features of the OCTANE Personal Video Option

OCTANE Personal Video Board Capabilities
Video Library Capabilities
VL System Software Architecture
VL Architectural Model of Video Devices
OCTANE Personal Video Formats

2. Setting Up Your VL Application

The VL Programming Model
Performing Preliminary Steps
Opening a Connection to the Video Daemon
Specifying Nodes on the Data Path
Creating and Setting Up the Data Path

3. Setting Parameters for Data Transfer

Device-Independent Controls for OCTANE Personal Video
VL_TIMING
VL_EVO_FILTER_TYPE
VL_FORMAT
VL_PACKING
VL_ZOOM
VL_SIZE
VL_OFFSET
VL_CAP_TYPE and VL_RATE
VL_COLORSPACE
Camera Controls

4. Synchronizing Data Streams and Signals

Using UST, MSC, and Buffered Media Streams for Synchronization
Media Library Interfaces for UST and MSC
Using the Internal Video Sync Signal

5. Transferring Video Data and Ending Data Transfer

Transferring Video Data to and From Devices
Ending Data Transfer
Example Programs

6. Using VL Controls

VL Control Type and Values
VL Control Fraction Ranges
VL Control Classes
VL Control Groupings

7. Event Handling

OCTANE Personal Video VL Events
Querying VL Events
Creating a VL Event Loop
Creating a Main Loop With Callbacks

8. Video Real-Time Capture and Playback

Video Library Buffers
Caching
Direct I/O to Disk
syssgi
Asynchronous I/O

A. Return Codes

B. OCTANE Personal Video Nodes and Their Controls

VL_DEVICE
VL_MEM
VL_SCREEN
VL_VIDEO

C. Pixel Packings and Color Spaces

Packings
Sampling Patterns

D. OCTANE Personal Video Color-Space Conversions

OCTANE Personal Video Color Spaces
Mathematical Operations Performed During Conversions
Implications of Color-Space Conversions
Example Color Conversions

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