SOYO STH-DCAM user manual Quick Start, Video capture program window

STH-DCAM USER’S MANUAL 2001 VIDERE DESIGN

2 Quick Start

The STH-DCAM comes assembled, with 3.6 mm lenses as standard. To set up and test the STH-DCAM, you will need the following:

1.Host computer with a 1394 PCI or PCMCIA card, OHCI compliant.

2.1394 6-pin cable.

3.Capture software or Small Vision System installed on the host computer.

Install the 1394 host card, if necessary, according to the directions in Section 7.1. Install the video capture software (included with the STH- DCAM) or Small Vision System software (see Section 7.2). This is the not-so-quick part of the Quick Start.

The STH-DCAM has a single IEEE 1394 port, for plugging in an IEEE 1394 cable. Plug one end of a 6 pin – 6 pin IEEE 1394 cable into the port, and the other end into any port of the host card. Note: for PCMCIA cards, and laptops with a 4-pin Sony iLink port, an external power supply should be plugged into the STH-DCAM to supply power to the stereo head, using the 2.1 mm power jack. Standard IEEE 1394 PCI cards supply enough power, and the power adapter is not necessary.

Start the video capture program, smallvcap(.exe), on the host computer. You should see a screen as in Figure 2-1.The message window should indicate that the STH-DCAM interface is present. If not, go back to software installation (Section 7.2), and follow the instructions for configuring the correct capture library.

Pull down the Input chooser, and select the Video option. If everything has been set up, the driver software will recognize and configure the stereo head after a few seconds, and a success message will appear in the info text window. If not, the Input chooser will go back to None, and an error

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Figure 2-1 Video capture program window.

message will appear in the info window. Please see Section 7 for troubleshooting.

To view stereo video, press the Continuous button. Left and right images should appear in the application windows. If the message “Image timed out” appears, then there is a problem with the IEEE 1394 drivers; please see Section 7. After a few seconds, the images, which are initially dark, should lighten as the auto exposure mode adjusts to ambient lighting (Section 6.2). Images can be saved using the File menu.

A more complete description of the video capture program is in Section 6. The SVS programs are described in the documentation that comes with that software. It is helpful to review Section 6 in conjunction with the SVS documentation.