Generating A Video Signal (Ni 5431 Only) - National Instruments 5401 Getting Started Manual

Help»FGEN SFP Help or Help»Show Context Help. For device-specific
help, select Help»Hardware-Specific Help.
You can use the NI Analog Waveform Editor to create
Note
arbitrary waveform files.

Generating a Video Signal (NI 5431 Only)

To generate a video signal using the NI Video Signal Generator Wizard,
complete the following steps:
1. Launch the NI Video Generator Wizard by selecting Start»
All Programs»National Instruments Composite Video
Generator»Video Generator Wizard.
To use the NI Video Generator Wizard, the LabVIEW
Note
Run-Time Engine version 5.1.1 must be installed. You can
download this software at
2. Complete the following steps to generate a video signal based on a
bitmap image using the factory settings:
a. Verify that the Device ID is set to the device number previously
configured in MAX.
b. Select Load BMP file and compute video data.
c. Click Browse.
d. Double-click the appropriate directory from the following choices:
• For NTSC users, double-click the
directory.
• For PAL and SECAM users, double-click the
1040x576
For information about video data file formats, refer to the
Note
NI Signal Generators Help.
e. Double-click any of the example .
path appears in the BMP Input File Path control box.
f. Select Use factory settings. This option applies the default video
parameters to the video signal you want to generate.
g. Select M-NTSC, Standard-PAL, or SECAM, depending on the
video format you want to generate.
h. Select Download video data file. This option downloads the binary
video data from your computer to the NI 5431 device.
NI SIgnal Generators Getting Started Guide
ni.com/softlib.nsf
directory.
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or the
640x480
files. The bitmap image file
bmp
.
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or the
768x576
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