Vecow VSM-200 User manual

1.0.0 Edion 19/04/2012
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©Vecow VSM-200 Video Capture Card Series User Manual
This manual is intended to be used as a praccal and informave guide only and
is subject to change without prior noce. It does not represent commitment from
Vecow Co., Ltd. Vecow shall not be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or
consequenal damages arising out of the use of the product or documentaon,
nor for any infringements upon the rights of third pares, which may result from
such use.
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class
A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed
to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the
equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates,
uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in
accordance with the instrucon manual, may cause harmful interference to radio
communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to
cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the
interference at his own expense.
FCC
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Union (CE) direcves if it has a CE marking. For computer systems to remain CE
compliant, only CE-compliant parts may be used. Maintaining CE compliance also
requires proper cable and cabling techniques.
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Packing List
Order Informaon
Part Number Descripon
VSM-200-4 4-CH, D1, Real-me, SUMIT(PCIe), 120 fps, Video Capture Card, include cables and SDK
VSM-200-8 8-CH, D1, Real-me, SUMIT(PCIe), 240 fps, Video Capture Card, include cables and SDK
No. Photo Descripon Qty
1VSM-200-4/-8 Capture Card 1
2 VSM-200-4: 16 pin header to D-sub 15 Cable x 1
or
VSM-200-8: 16 pin header to D-sub 15 Cable x 2
3 D-Sub 15 to BNC Cable 1
4 Driver and Soware CD 1
Suggeson Plaorm
Part Number Descripon
EC-5500-5GDE Fanless Embedded Controller with 5x GbE, 2x DDR3 SODIMM, 2x eSATA, 4x COM,
2x MiniPCI-e, 2x HDD, Isolated DIO, SUMIT (A, B), iAMT 7.0

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Table of Contents
Declaimer iv
Declaration of Conformity iv
Copyright and Trademarks iv
FCC iv
CE iv
Packing List v
Order Information v
Suggestion Platform v
General Introduction 1
1.1 Overview 1
1.2 Product Specication 2
1.2.1 Specication of Vecow VSM-200-4 2
1.2.2 Specication of Vecow VSM-200-8 3
1.3 System Requirements 4
1.4 Mechanical Dimension 5
Hardware Installation 6
2.1 Install VSM-200 6
2.2 Connector Pin Assignments 8
2.2.1 Signal Input Pin Assignments 8
2.2.2 J2 Connector Pin Assignments 8
2.3 RCA and BNC Cable Pin Assignment 9
2.3.1 Main board to DB-15 pin assignment 9
2.3.2 DB15 to 4 Video-in and 4 Audio-in cable pin assignment 10
Driver Installation 11
3.1 Install VSM-200 driver software 11
Software Application 14
4.1 Microsoft .NET Frame work installation 14
4.2 Start the VSM-200 application 15
4.3 Using the VSM-200 Application 16
4.3.1 Main Application Window 16
4.3.2 Camera Setup function 18
4.3.3 Color Control Function 18
4.3.4 Audio Downstream Selection 19
4.3.5 Demonstration 19
4.4 Motion Detection 20
4.4.1 Software Interface 20
4.4.2 Grid Selection Setup 20
4.4.3 Threshold Interface 21
SDK Function 23
5.1 Windows 23
5.1.1 Driver Build Guide 23
5.1.2 Graphedit demo on Window System 25
5.1.3 Multiple Instance Function 28
5.2 Linux System 33
5.2.1 Driver Building Guide 33

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General Introduction
General Introduction
Thank you for your purchase of the VSM-200 video capture
card.
The Vecow VSM-200 series, SUMIT™-based, extended
temperature 4-CH/8-CH Video/Audio Capture Card, which
provides outstanding transferring rate for industrial level
systems that require small footprint and steady performance
under harsh environments.
Developed by the by the Small Form Factor special Interest
Group (SFF-SIG™), VSM-200 series feature the Stackable
Unied Module Interconnect Technology (SUMIT) interface.
Main concern of solid, high-speed connector technologies is
small form factors now days.
In order to minimize the board space, VSM-200 series have
closely spaced pins (fine pitch). In addition, the connector
system of VSM-200 series can handle PCI Express and USB
high-frequency signals.
Using 10-bit video analog-to-digital convers, a full 10-bit
video data path, a two dimensional adapve comb lter for
NTSC, PAL and SECAM video for video quality, and ADCs for
audio quality, VSM-200 series support the bridging of up
to eight channels of digital video and audio from PCIe, and
can output these streams over pins in BT.656 or I2S-style
interfaces, respecvely.
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1.1 Overview

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1.2 Product Specicaon
General
Bus Type /Form Factor SUMIT (PCI Express)
Dimensions( L x H ) 90mm x 96mm (3.5" x 3.8")
I/O Connector 1 x 16 pin header to D-Sub 15 cable
1 x D-Sub 15 to BNC cable
Environment Cercaons FCC, CE, RoHS Compliance
Storage Temperature -40°C to 85°C (-40 °F to 185 °F)
Operate Temperature -25°C to 70°C (-13 °F to 158 °F)
Video
Maximum Channel Number 4
Input Connector 4 input BNC
Resoluon D1 (NTSC: 720 x 480 / PAL: 720 x 576)
CIF (NTSC: 360 x 240 / PAL: 360 x 288)
4CIF (NTSC: 704 x 480 / PAL: 704 x 576)
DCIF (NTSC: 528 x 320 / PAL: 528 x 384)
QCIF (NTSC: 180 x 120 / PAL: 180 x 144)
Recording Rate 4CH with full D1 resoluon
120 fps on NTSC system, 100 fps on PAL system
Audio
Maximum Channel Number 4 mono or 2 stereo
Audio Input Connector 4 input RCA
Soware
OS Support WindowsXP/VISTA/Windows7 (32 Bits or 64 Bits)
Standard Linux kernel 2.6.38 and 2.6.33
SDK VC++ / .NET
Recommend System
CPU Intel Core2 Duo E4500 2.2GHz
Memory 1GB
Graphics Unit DirectX 9.0c compable display card
Storage Size 500GB
1.2.1 Specicaon of Vecow VSM-200-4

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General Introduction
1.2.2 Specicaon of Vecow VSM-200-8
General
Bus Type /Form Factor SUMIT (PCI Express)
Dimensions( L x H ) 90mm x 96mm (3.5" x 3.8")
I/O Connector 2 x 16 pin header to D-Sub 15 cable
2 x D-Sub 15 to BNC cable
Environment Cercaons FCC, CE, RoHS Compliance
Storage Temperature -40°C to 85°C (-40 °F to 185 °F)
Operate Temperature -25°C to 70°C (-13 °F to 158 °F)
Video
Maximum Channel Number 8
Input Connector Channel 1~4: 4 input BNC
Channel 5~8: 4 input BNC to D-Sub 15
Resoluon D1 (NTSC: 720 x 480 / PAL: 720 x 576)
CIF (NTSC: 360 x 240 / PAL: 360 x 288)
4CIF (NTSC: 704 x 480 / PAL: 704 x 576)
DCIF (NTSC: 528 x 320 / PAL: 528 x 384)
QCIF (NTSC: 180 x 120 / PAL: 180 x 144)
Recording Rate 8CH with full D1 resoluon
240 fps on NTSC system, 100 fps on PAL system
Audio
Maximum Channel Number 8 mono or 2 stereo
Audio Input Connector Channel 1~4: 4 input RCA
Channel 5~8: 4 input RCA to D-Sub 15
Soware
OS Support WindowsXP/VISTA/Windows7 (32 Bits or 64 Bits)
Standard Linux kernel 2.6.38 and 2.6.33
SDK VC++ / .NET
Recommend System
CPU Intel Core2 GHz Quad Q8400 2.66GHz
Memory 1GB
Graphics Unit DirectX 9.0c compable display card
Storage Size 750GB

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1.3 System Requirements
Your PC must have the following hardware and soware
installed to be able to use the VSM-200 series:
• Hardware Requiremets
Item VSM-200-4 VSM-200-8
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo
E4500 2.2GHz
Intel Core 2 Quad
Q8400 2.66GHz
Memory DDR2, 1GB DDR2, 1GB
Graphics Unit DirectX 9.0c Compable Display Card
Storage Size 500 GB 750 GB
Slot/Socket One Available mini PCI-e 1.1
• Soware Requirement:
Microso® Windows 7 or VISTA operang system or
above.

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1.4 Mechanical Dimension
Unit: mm (inch)
J2

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Hardware Installation
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Hardware Installation
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2.1 Install VSM-200
Power input, GbE ports, COM ports and oponal isolated DIO
are located on the rear panel. In this secon, we’ll illustrate
connectors on the rear panel.
Before you install VSM-200, please power o the system for say.
Step1.
Insert VSM-200 card into
Sumit slot
Step2.

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Please make sure PCB
is firmly blocked on the
board.
Step3.
Power On your system and install driver.
Step4.
Connect 16 pin to D-sub
15 Cable for source input.
Detailed pin defination
please refer to 2.1 secon.
Step5.

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2.2 Connector Pin Assignments
2.2.1 Signal Input Pin Assignments
2.2.2 J2 Connector Pin Assignments
1357911 13 15
2 4 6 810 12 14 16
Pin No. 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15
Funcon V5 V6 V7 V8 A5 A6 A7 A8
Pin No. 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Funcon GND GND GND GND GND GND GND GND
The serial console interface connector is a 16 pin header to
D-sub 15 Cable connector. A null modem cable is required
to connect a workstation. 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 show the pin
assignments for the serial console interface connector
Posion Connector Type Signal
V1 BNC Video Source1
V2 Video Source2
V3 Video Source3
V4 Video Source4
A1 RCA Audio Source1
A2 Audio Source2
A3 Audio Source3
A4 Audio Source4
V1 V2 V3 V4
A1 A2 A3 A4

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2.3 RCA and BNC Cable Pin Assignment
2.3.1 Main board to DB-15 pin assignment

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Driver Installation
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2.3.2 DB15 to 4 Video-in and 4 Audio-in cable pin assignment

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Driver Installation
Driver Installation
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3.1 Install VSM-200 driver soware
When you boot your computer after you have installed the VSM-200
PCIe software compression card, Windows will automatically detect the
existing card and the following Device Manager Message dialog appears
automacally. Please click the "Browse my computer for driver soware
(advanced)" opon.
Step1.
The screenshots shown below are taken from Windows 7 and may vary slightly
depending the Operang System
CAUTION!
CAUTION!

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Driver Installation
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Inser the Soware and Driver CD, and click "Browse..." to choose the le
path. The driver folder on the Software and Driver CD is : CD\Windows\
Driver\x86.zip or x64.zip
[x86.zip] for 32 bit version windows system, include XP/Vista/Win7.
[x64.zip] for 64 bit version windows system, include XP/Vista/Win7.
Step2.
When the driver is located, ome windows system will show "Windows Security
Message" to warring you windows can't varify the publisher of this driver software,
please select "Install this driver soware anyway" opon.
CAUTION!
CAUTION!

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Driver Installation
After the driver installation is completed, the windows will pop-up the
message as follow:
Step3.

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Software Application
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Software Application
4.1 Microso .NET Frame work installaon
The Microso .NET Frame work will install on windows install
folder. For example, on WinXP SP3, you can check
“Windows\Microso.NET\Framework”
folder.
Otherwise, you can get the .NET Frame work here:
hp://www.microso.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=19
4
Noce before installing the soware:
Make sure your system has installed .NET frame work 2.0
especially the WinXP user. If the program is already installed
you can safely precede the VSM-200 software and skip 4.1
secon.