User`s manual

LOLA: Low Latency Audio Visual Streaming System
Appendix A – experimental digital video setup
A.1 - CameraLink
A CameraLink Digital (B/W and Color) video configuration was tested but for various reasons, first
of all the small maximum cable length (10m) but also for the greater latency, it is abandoned. The
Camera Link configuration under test was as follows:
• BitFlow Neon-CL grabber with SDK 5.60 drivers;
• Sentech STC-PoCL33A color video camera (color output is Bayer encoded, needs SW
Bayer decoding).
Digital Camera Link cameras are found on the market in a wide variety of brands and
models, and a selection of cameras, both B/W or RGB and likely to be compatible with LOLA, is as
follows:
Adimec (e.g., A1000 Camera Link or Opal2000 CoaxPress ), Basler (e.g., L100 or L300 series),
CIS (e.g. VCC-F32 series), Hitachi (e.g., KP-FD30CL), Imperx (e.g., ICL-B0610 ), Leutron
Vision (e.g., PicSight P34B-PoCL), Jai (e.g., RMC-6740CL), PhotonFocus (e.g., MV-D640(C)
series), Sentech (e.g., STC-CLC33A ), Toshiba-Teli (e.g., CS6910CL ), Uniq(e.g., UP600-CL).
A.2 - CoaxExpress
Experiments are also in place using the new CoaXPress Standard, which will be available
for the next release (1.4.0). Our current CoaXPress configuration is the following:
• BitFlow Karbon-CXP frame grabber with SDK 5.70 drivers;
• Imperx ICX-B1410 HD color video camera (color output is Bayer encoded but is available
an hardware RGB8Packed mode too).
A.3 - Bayer Color Menu
The Color Menu (Fig. 9) allows to switch from B/W to Color (by software Bayer decoding)
for digital video cameras supporting colors through Bayer encoding. The functions available in the
Color menu provide support for color correction through RGB components balance, Bayer matrix
type selection, decoding algorithm selection.