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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...
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.
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...
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...
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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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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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...
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’...
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.
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...
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...
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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...
“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.
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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.
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”.