Live video feed on front panel

[KD5PFF]

I am attempting to create a vi that will display a video feed from a camera monitoring a production process. I need this feed to display live video from a USB capture card.

We are using basic labview 2010. Any advice you gurus could lend would be helpful.

I have reasonable experience with labview but no experience working with video and labview. To keep the cost down I would really like to avoid purchasing additional software. Especially since we do not need any image processing capabilities.

This has to be done with labview because we are also going to tie in some production information, line speed, lb/hr etc.

I have looked through all of the forum links that I could find and none seemed to get me any closer.

Thanks in advance.

[MikeS81]

Hi KD5PFF,

if you work on windows, then this could help.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/multiple-USB-cameras-in-Labview/m-p/841648#M382013

Mike

[KD5PFF]

Thanks for the reply I was able to follow the rabbit hole and found a vi called webcam working.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/2-hours-finished-the-webcam-program/td-p/782481/page/3

It works really well. Eventually I will have to figure out how to make it display video from two feeds but I will cross that bridge later. In the mean time I just need to make it work inside of my other program. Thanks for the help.