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Imaging Products Digital Firewire Cameras IEEE-1394 from Basler, Sony, Prosilica, The Imaging Source, Unibrain and Pixelink
 

Fire-i Software v3.73
WDM drivers and control application software based on Microsoft or Unibrain's 1394 stack & DirectShow;
for comprehensive control, display and capture of IIDC compliant Firewire (1394a - 1394b) Digital Cameras.
NEW! Fire-i™ 3.7x Software is a major new release which introduces many new features and support of new advanced 1394b cameras from Basler AVT, PointGrey, Sony, Toshiba-Teli etc.
In specific, special support has been added for AVT's 'jumbo packets' mode, PointGrey's dual packet mode and Sony's software broadcast trigger modes.

Fire-i™ software now supports software DMA multiplexing functionality. This provides the ability to connect and stream simultaneously more cameras that the hardware DMA limit of the firewire adapters allow. (Typical firewire adapters have 4 DMA channels).
Note: Multi-DMA functionality is available only in Fire-i software, running under ubCorePro drivers.


Fire-i™ software main features:
  • IIDC 1.31 and IIDC 1.32 (draft) compliant.
  • DirectShow - WDM based drivers, WIA compatible.
  • Multiple cameras operation from same control panel.
  • Cameras preview shared by several computers.
  • Frames, timed frames and live video capture in any encoding format.
  • Advance IIDC features support like Pixel Binning, automatic bus synchronization, broadcast trigger etc.
  • TCP/IP streaming, integrated Web Server.
  • Full user-configurable 16 bits support.
  • Support for control by absolute values.
  • Ability to resize, rotate, flip the image.
  • Title and time/date inclusion in the picture (timestamp).
  • Support of any format including user-defined, partial scan (Format_7).
  • Color RAW and RAW-8 mode conversion.
  • Capture frames in BMP (uncompressed), JPEG, TIFF & TIFF-16 bit and video in any video codec.
You can download an evaluation (demo) version of the software from here: http://www.unibrain.com/downloads/ 
Note: The demo version is fully functional and includes the drivers for all supported IIDC firewire digital cameras. It will display only a floating watermark with the Unibrain logo while streaming or capturing frames. The watermark is removed when the drivers become licensed.

Fire-i Camera drivers are compatible with of
Note:  In order for Labview to support WDM drivers (and our drivers), a separate SDK (IVision) has to be installed.
  

Supported Cameras

  • Generic driver for all IIDC compliant models
  • Specific drivers for models of Unibrain, Sony, AVT, Basler, Hamamatsu, JVC, Pixelink, IMI-Tech, Toshiba-Teli, PointGrey, Sony, ISG, Hitachi, Baumer, IMI-Tech, ISG, Prosilica etc.

Operating Systems supported:

Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista & 64 bit XP/2003/Vista

Supported Hardware:

Fire-i™ application operates with Unibrain’s or any third party 1394 OHCI PCI/PCMCIA/PCI-express/Express card compliant adapter, or any Desktop/Portable PC with built-in 1394 OHCI support.

For non-Unibrain cameras, permanent operation requires the use of a software license Product Key or a hardware licensed special Unibrain Firewire PCI or PCI express adapter.


For Developers:

Full SDK of Fire-i™ 3.71 is available from Unibrain as Fire-i API™ Vision - Imaging toolkit.

Package contains:

  • Fire-i™ 3.71 camera drivers and application.
  • Driver support for all 1394b (Firewire-800) IIDC cameras (using the Fire-i ubCore package).
  • One software activation product key code for one camera or one firewire adapter (user's choice).
 

Fire-i™ Software Order Part Number: 1137

 

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