StreamPix5 is a powerful video recording and management software with many advanced features for use with multiple cameras. Compatible with any mix of analogue, USB, GigE, Firewire and Cameralink cameras from most major manufacturers.
With StreamPix5, you can view live video, control camera settings and acquire from multiple cameras simultaneously. The user interface of StreamPix5 provides a complete management console for all cameras, simplifying the setup, control and acquisition from any number and type of cameras, both locally and remotely connected.
StreamPix5 can support an infinite number of different cameras on a single computer, limited only the bandwidth of the camera interfaces and PC bus. Multiple computers running StreamPix 5 can be synchronized from a single master PC for increased bandwidth.
Applications
- Motion analysis
- Factory floor troubleshooting
- Web inspection
- Time-lapse recording
- Biomechanics
- Microscopy
- Scientific video acquisition
Features
- Compatible with GigE, Firewire, USB, Cameralink, HD-SDI and analogue cameras in any mix
- Compatible with 32 and 64 bit Windows XP and Vista
- Records multiple video streams directly to PC RAM or hard disk
- Records video in uncompressed or compressed format
- Saves video sequences in a variety of formats (AVI, MPEG, DivX, XVID,..)
- Includes Recording Manager for time lapse video acquisition
- Precise time stamping of every image
- Includes colour balance, histogram, and other real time image processing functions
- Works with laptop, portable and desktop computers
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Multi-camera recording
StreamPix5 supports viewing and recording from multiple cameras on a single computer simultaneously. Any mix of cameras, video formats and interfaces is supported and each camera can be set up independently, with or without audio.
Multi-computer recording
The number of cameras and maximum frame rate supported by a single computer is limited by the transfer speed of the camera interfaces, computer bus speed, disk transfer rate and CPU power. With the optional StreamPix Remote, multiple computers can be controlled from a single PC for increased video recording capacity.
Synchronous recording
Each video image from each camera is time stamped when it is received by the system. StreamPix can play back in time mode, ensuring synchronous playback from multiple cameras even when the cameras run at different frame rates. Precise synchronization of multiple cameras can be done by hardware synchronization, e.g. genlock for analogue cameras or master/slave mode for digital cameras.
Time stamping
Each image is time stamped by the PC clock with 1-2 ms resolution. IRIG A/B and GPS time receivers are supported for applications where highly accurate time information is required.
Recording Manager
The StreamPix5 recording manager allows you to create customized recording scripts for processes such as time-lapsed, pre/post, I/O signal controlled or non-linear recordings. Each script can be made of one or more steps per camera, and each step can consist of any number of commands and/or substeps. Typical commands will include grab frame, skip frame, loop recording, call sub-step, restart immediately, restart every x frames and restart at specified interval. Other features include stop condition(s), Do X times, Until X frames, For Time X, until IO.
Video compression
StreamPix5 records video to the native Sequence format in either uncompressed, or compressed with jpeg or lossless RLE, Huffman or LZ. StreamPix5 will also record directly to AVI files using any Windows compatible codec installed on the computer such as MPEG1, MPEG2, DIVX, XVID, etc.
StreamPix supports the near-lossless Cineform codec for high-quality live recording of high-definition colour video on a laptop computer.
Color Processing
StreamPix5 supports Bayer-coded colour cameras and can perform colour correction and white balance during recording or during AVI export. StreamPix5 supports the IRIDAS .look files created by the IRIDAS Speedgrade Onset professional post-production suite for accurate colour grading of Bayer-coded videos.
Camera support
StreamPix5 supports many camera models and frame grabbers from all major manufacturers, and all major camera interfaces like GigE, Firewire, USB, Cameralink, parallel digital and analogue. See the Norpix web site for an updated list of supported cameras and frame grabbers.
Optional modules
StreamPix Remote
Controls multiple copies of StreamPix5 running on different networked computers. StreamPix Remote is used for remote recording or for increasing the total video bandwidth of a system by allowing simultaneous recording from more and faster cameras than possible with a single computer.
Pre-post module
The pre-post module records the videos into ring buffers, constantly overwriting the oldest part. When a trigger is received, StreamPix5 freezes the video buffer, so that the video before and up to the arrival of the trigger is saved. This feature is particularly useful for capturing rare events occurring at unpredictable time intervals. The recording parameters can be set independently for each camera.
SimulPix module
The SimulPix module creates a single video from two cameras by overlaying the two video streams. SimulPix is developed specially for two-camera microscopy and is compatible with Q-imaging Retiga cameras.
Pulse Generator & I/O Module
The I/O module supports digital I/O through USB or PCI I/O devices for monitoring of digital status signals, for starting and stopping video recording by TTL signals and for generating a pulse stream for synchronization of camera frame rate.
Multichannel Audio Recording Mmodule
The WAV/BWAV Audio Recording Module allows recording of audio from any Windows compatible audio source to a separate audio file, while the video is recorded to a Sequence file. The Audio Recording Module maintains audio signal in precise synchronization to the video.
Accurate Time Stamping Module
The time stamping module supports the use of GPS or IrigB time sources for time stamping images with and absolute time, with much higher precision than possible with the PC system clock.
GPS Positioning Module
The GPS Positioning Module supports all NMEA GPS receivers and is used for adding position information to the video data.
Motion Detection Module
The Motion Detection Module triggers video acquisition of by measuring the average grey level inside a predefined region, or by measuring the absolute change in grey level between the incoming images and a reference image. This module is useful for control of acquisition without the need for an external trigger device.
DAQ module
The DAQ module allows acquition of multiple analogue channels over a USB DAQ device. The analog voltages can be converted to physical units and displayed on the video as overlay or saves to a separate file.
Audio/Video Streamer Module
Adds web streaming capabilities to broadcast the captured video live to the network using standard Windows Media Server
 Supported camera drivers
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