CamView - Direct show camera viewer
USB, PCIe, FireWire

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CAM View older and obsolette releases

CamView release 3.26; pkg1.26 WinInstaller Same as 4.0, but built on old MSVC2003 runtime as whole 1.x serie.


CamView version 4.3; pkg2.3. WinInstallerx86 and WinInstaller64 Underlying library can use assembly accelerators, that supports MMX vectorised instructions.
CamView version 4.4; pkg2.4. WinInstallerx86 and WinInstaller64 Implement correctly VIDEOINFOHEADER2 processing.
CamView version 4.5; pkg2.5. WinInstallerx86 and WinInstaller64 New videoformat AYUV, slightly accelerated YUV->RGB conversion.
CamView version 4.5.1; pkg2.5.1 WinInstallerx86 and WinInstaller64 Implement format RESET for some video sources like AV Objects Video Generator.
CamView version 4.6; pkg2.6. WinInstallerx86 and WinInstaller64 Completelly rewritten SampleGrabber object. There are 3 reasons: This API might be removed, 2, COM object CLSID_SampleGrabber failed for negative height 3, The image was copied multiple times

CamView could be also found on SourceForge.
Windows executable is located in kamerka\bin\win32\ in source packages.

Windows version

Minimal supported version for serie 3 is Windows 2000 and for Serie 4 is WindowsXP. There was something broken and 4.6 again supports WindowsXP.

Supported cameras

The software has been tested with these cameras, but it should also work with others. It also works with non USB builtin cameras on notebook.

Features:

Virtual test software camera

You can install pure virtual camera AVSHWS device to your Windows.
Another userspace test purpose virtual camera compilled from Microsoft DirectShow SDK. This camera supports formats RGB32, RGB24, RGB8, RGB565, RGB555.

Libraries:

Main widget library - wxwidgets
I am using this version of wxWidgets to compile CamView.

Library for processing images

JPG library

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