Vecow VSM-200 User Manual

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1.0.0 Edition 19/04/2012
All information is subject to change without notice.

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  • Page 1 1.0.0 Edition 19/04/2012 All information is subject to change without notice.
  • Page 2 Fax: 886 2 2268 1658 For further support information, refer to the Technical Support and Professional Services appendix. To comment on Vecow Co., Ltd. documentation, refer to the Vecow Co., Ltd. web site at www.vecow.com. © 2011–2012 Vecow Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • Page 3 Record of Revision Version Date Page Description Remark V1.0.0 March 2012 Perliminary Release...
  • Page 4: Declaration Of Conformity

    This manual is intended to be used as a practical and informative guide only and is subject to change without prior notice. It does not represent commitment from Vecow Co., Ltd. Vecow shall not be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use of the product or documentation, nor for any infringements upon the rights of third parties, which may result from such use.
  • Page 5: Packing List

    Packing List No. Photo Description VSM-200-4/-8 Capture Card VSM-200-4: 16 pin header to D-sub 15 Cable x 1 VSM-200-8: 16 pin header to D-sub 15 Cable x 2 D-Sub 15 to BNC Cable Driver and Software CD Order Information Part Number Description...
  • Page 6: Table Of Contents

    Copyright and Trademarks Packing List Order Information Suggestion Platform General Introduction 1.1 Overview 1.2 Product Specification 1.2.1 Specification of Vecow VSM-200-4 1.2.2 Specification of Vecow VSM-200-8 1.3 System Requirements 1.4 Mechanical Dimension Hardware Installation 2.1 Install VSM-200 2.2 Connector Pin Assignments 2.2.1 Signal Input Pin Assignments...
  • Page 7: General Introduction

    General Introduction 1.1 Overview Thank you for your purchase of the VSM-200 video capture card. The Vecow VSM-200 series, SUMIT™-based, extended temperature 4-CH/8-CH Video/Audio Capture Card, which provides outstanding transferring rate for industrial level systems that require small footprint and steady performance under harsh environments.
  • Page 8: Product Specification

    WindowsXP/VISTA/Windows7 (32 Bits or 64 Bits) Standard Linux kernel 2.6.38 and 2.6.33 VC++ / .NET Recommend System Intel Core2 Duo E4500 2.2GHz Memory Graphics Unit DirectX 9.0c compatible display card Storage Size 500GB General Introduction ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 9: Specification Of Vecow Vsm-200-8

    1.2.2 Specification of Vecow VSM-200-8 General Bus Type /Form Factor SUMIT (PCI Express) Dimensions( L x H ) 90mm x 96mm (3.5" x 3.8") I/O Connector 2 x 16 pin header to D-Sub 15 cable 2 x D-Sub 15 to BNC cable...
  • Page 10: System Requirements

    1.3 System Requirements Your PC must have the following hardware and software installed to be able to use the VSM-200 series: • Hardware Requiremets Item VSM-200-4 VSM-200-8 Intel Core 2 Duo Intel Core 2 Quad E4500 2.2GHz Q8400 2.66GHz Memory...
  • Page 11: Mechanical Dimension

    1.4 Mechanical Dimension Unit: mm (inch) General Introduction...
  • Page 12: Hardware Installation

    Power input, GbE ports, COM ports and optional isolated DIO are located on the rear panel. In this section, we’ll illustrate connectors on the rear panel. Step1. Before you install VSM-200, please power off the system for safty. Step2. Insert VSM-200 card into Sumit slot Hardware Installation ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 13 Step3. Please make sure PCB is firmly blocked on the board. Step4. Power On your system and install driver. Step5. Connect 16 pin to D-sub 15 Cable for source input. Detailed pin defination please refer to 2.1 section. Hardware Installation...
  • Page 14: Connector Pin Assignments

    Connector Type Signal Video Source1 Video Source2 Video Source3 Video Source4 Audio Source1 Audio Source2 Audio Source3 Audio Source4 2.2.2 J2 Connector Pin Assignments Pin No. Function Pin No. Function Hardware Installation ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 15: Rca And Bnc Cable Pin Assignment

    2.3 RCA and BNC Cable Pin Assignment 2.3.1 Main board to DB-15 pin assignment Driver Installation...
  • Page 16: Db15 To 4 Video-In And 4 Audio-In Cable Pin Assignment

    2.3.2 DB15 to 4 Video-in and 4 Audio-in cable pin assignment Driver Installation ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 17: Driver Installation

    The screenshots shown below are taken from Windows 7 and may vary slightly depending the Operating System Step1. When you boot your computer after you have installed the VSM-200 PCIe software compression card, Windows will automatically detect the existing card and the following Device Manager Message dialog appears automatically.
  • Page 18 When the driver is located, ome windows system will show " Message " to warring you windows can't varify the publisher of this driver software, Install this driver software anyway please select " " option. Driver Installation ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 19 Step3. After the driver installation is completed, the windows will pop-up the message as follow: Driver Installation...
  • Page 20: Software Application

    Notice before installing the software: Make sure your system has installed .NET frame work 2.0 especially the WinXP user. If the program is already installed you can safely precede the VSM-200 software and skip 4.1 section. 4.1 Microsoft .NET Frame work installation The Microsoft .NET Frame work will install on windows install...
  • Page 21: Start The Vsm-200 Application

    4.2 Start the VSM-200 application Insert the VSM-200 installation and driver disk into your optical drive. Go to My Computer and double-click the optical drive, the folder displayed which looks like that shown in the screen shot below. There are 32bit and 64bit version of the VSM-200 application, before you start the execution file, please make sure you choose the file compatible with your system.
  • Page 22: Using The Vsm-200 Application

    4.3 Using the VSM-200 Application 4.3.1 Main Application Window When entering the VSM-200 Program, the main interface screen will open as shown below. ⓬ ⓭ ❶ ❷ ❸ ❹ ❺ Image Display Area ❻ ❼ Status of Image fps ❽...
  • Page 23 No Function Description Main Function ❶ START Show the Video streaming on Image display area ❷ PAUSE Pause current video streaming ❸ STOP Close present video streaming PROPERTIES ❹ Camera Setup Show the Video streaming on Image display area ❺ Color Control Video quality adjustment ❻...
  • Page 24: Camera Setup Function

    VDEC_E: CAMERA5, VDEC_F: CAMERA6, VDEC_G: CAMERA7, VDEC_H: CAMERA8, Press ‘Default’ to restore the original color setting of one VDEC. After you changed the setting, please press ‘Apply’ to save it. Software Application ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 25: Audio Downstream Selection

    4.3.4 Audio Downstream Selection Every audio channel accept 2 audio line input , and every audio line is apply for one video line. Please see this table. Audio Line Audio Downstream Channel Speaker Left Right Left Right Left Right Left Right When you change the setting , must press ‘Apply’...
  • Page 26: Motion Detection

    4.4 Motion Detection 4.4.1 Software Interface On the Main screen of VSM-200 software, press “Setup” and you will see 3 sub items: Enable Checked this option to enable “Motion Detection” function. Grid Selection Click this item to select motion detection area.
  • Page 27: Threshold Interface

    Point3. Multiple areas are acceptable. 4.4.3 Threshold Interface Motion No Motion Black / Low Light White / Day Light Software Application...
  • Page 28 The black and white detection counters will be reset before the beginning of the next field for detection. Software Application ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 29: Sdk Function

    SDK Function 5.1 Windows 5.1.1 Driver Build Guide Before starting to build VSM-200 driver please ensure that you have installed the following development environment: 1. Visual Studio 2005 or later 2. Microsoft WDK 6000. More information on the following link http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/resources/downloads.mspx...
  • Page 30 2. Change directory to SDK\Capture. 3. At the command prompt run the setpath.bat 4. Run the build utility with following options, build –c • Build VSM-200 software Open “HeliosApp” module on source project. ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 31: Graphedit Demo On Window System

    5.1.2 Graphedit demo on Window System The Microsoft DirectX SDK provides a very useful debugging utility called GraphEdit, which can be used to create Media device model. The demo of download video streaming with GraphEdit step: Step1. From the Graph menu o f t h e G r a p h E d i t a p p l i c a t i o n , c l i c k Insert filter...
  • Page 32 A d d v i d e o co nve r t device. Step6. Add Video Renderer Step7. Connect all device as below Step8. Press play to show the image Play Step9. Display image ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 33 Step10. Setup the properties of filter T h e p r o p e r t i e s o f Crossbar device T h e p r o p e r t i e s o f Capture device T h e p r o p e r t i e s o f Video Converter...
  • Page 34: Multiple Instance Function

    “Multiple Instance” function. Please follow the step to enable “Multiple Instance” function on your system. Step1. We strongly suggest uninstalling current VSM-200 driver from Windows, but if new installed, please skipping this step. Please tick this box, and clear all driver files.
  • Page 35 0x00, 0x00’ Please change 2nd value "0x00" to "0x01", the text as below: ‘HKR,"DriverData","EnableMultiInstances",0x00010001, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00’ Please save your change and exit the Notepad. Step3. Re-install the VSM-200 driver with modified driver, please refer to chapter 3 Driver Installation.
  • Page 36 Step4. Testing Multiple Instance function with GraphEdit, as you can see the chart below: ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 37 When enable multiple instance, you can create four CX25858 capture device. Please refer as upon figure.
  • Page 38 Step5. Play the Graph, there are four separate vidoe windows shows as follow graphics: ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...
  • Page 39: Linux System

    5.2 Linux System 5.2.1 Driver Building Guide Before you start, please ensure you have root ID and password. Please find as these two file that is on Linux SDK package v4l2_source_2.6.33.tar.bz2 cx25858_src_2.0.108.tar.gz • Install v4l2 module 1. Type “tar -jxvf v4l2_source_2.6.33.tar.bz2”You will see a folder “v4l-dvb-abd3aac6644e”.
  • Page 40 2. Use script command “mplay_video #” . ( # is 0~7 , for video 1 to video 8) For example : Display Video 1 , type “maply_video 0” Display Video 5 , type “maply_video 4” Please refer the display image as below: ©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual...

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