User`s guide

7 Storing Adaptor Information in an IMDF File

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Specifying Video Sources

To specify the video source in an IMDF file, use the Source element. A Source node can

only be the child of the IMDF root element and it cannot have any child nodes of its own.

When you create a Source node, you must specify values for two attributes: name and

id. In the name attribute, you specify the name of the source as it appears in the video

source object's Name property. The id is typically set to some value that is recognized

by the vendor's SDK. The id is only used by the adaptor and needs only to be unique

between sources.

The following example outlines how to create a Source node. The words in italics

represent text you define.

</Source>

</ImageAcquisitionInfo>