New multiplatform image capture plugin available: CivilCapture

[Vincenzo Della Mea-2]

Dear friends of ImageJ,
We are glad to announce the release of a new image capture plugin,  
CivilCapture, that can capture images from a video source on Windows,  
Linux (32/64-bit), and Mac OS X via DirectShow, V4L2, and Quicktime  
respectively.
CivilCapture is based on the LTI-civil Java library (http://lti- 
civil.sourceforge.net/), which provides for the low-level image  
capture features.
While the plugin GUI window is open, you can capture frames into a  
stack, much like the Quicktime Capture plugin does. It can also  
capture and display a single frame from a macro, without GUI.
The plugin is still in beta, because tested mainly on Windows (Vista)  
and Macosx, with USB cameras and a Formac Firewire video converter;  
however, it should run on Linux too, and with any capture device with  
standard DirectShow, V4L2, or Quicktime drivers.

Further information and downloads at http://www.eslide.net/ 
civilcapture.php

Regards,
Nicola Bortolotti and Vincenzo Della Mea

* Vincenzo Della Mea
* Medical Informatics, Telemedicine and Ehealth Lab
* University of Udine, Italy
* http://www.dimi.uniud.it/dellamea/ - http://mitel.dimi.uniud.it/   
-  http://www.eslide.net

[Gabriel Landini]

Wow! this sounds really good!

I am very interested in the linux support.
I did not understand exactly what is supported in linux. Is it USB or
firewire? (not sure what the comment of the Formac Firewire converter means
and whether it is needed in linux).

Many thanks for making this available.

Regards,

Gabriel

[Vincenzo Della Mea-2]

Dear Gabriel,
thanks for the interest.
LTI-civil and thus also CivilCapture rely on devices already  
interfaced with your operating system with some driver (Directshow on  
Win, Quicktime on Mac, Video4Linux2 on Linux: so, more or less  
standard). If you have some video source that can be seen on Linux,  
it is likely (although not certain) it will run also with CivilCapture.
Formac Studio is a firewire-interfaced video grabber, like more  
common USB converters (but perhaps faster, and more expensive).
I think this is good for most consumer products, although not as good  
for scientific cameras, which not often have standard drivers.

Regards,
Vincenzo

Il giorno 26/set/07, alle ore 17:58, Gabriel Landini ha scritto:

> Wow! this sounds really good!
>
> I am very interested in the linux support.
> I did not understand exactly what is supported in linux. Is it USB or
> firewire? (not sure what the comment of the Formac Firewire  
> converter means
> and whether it is needed in linux).