ofxBlackmagic is an openframeworks extension wrapping the native Blackmagic Designs Decklink API. It can be used to do real-time HDV capture with a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card. It has not been tested with any of the other Blackmagic Designs cards, but it should work fine.

#################################### License ####################################

Copyright (c) 2011, James Hughes All rights reserved.

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#################################### Installation/Usage ####################################

ofxBlackmagic is mostly API compatible with ofVideoGrabber, but it has slightly different initialization semantics. See the example code.

This wrapper doesn't support much of the Decklink API. It only does video capture (no audio). There is built-in support for YUV422 to RGB 24, and YUV422 to grayscale conversion.

This build is currently Windows specific. Porting to other platforms shouldn't be too hard, but I don't have a pressing need for it. It would involve:

- switching from the Decklink COM API to the equivalent C API
  (mostly a cut and paste job)

- replacing the atomic operations in DLFrameQueue.cpp with
  equivalent ops on your target platform - if you have a compiler
  that supports c++0x, then this should be easy to do portably.

This extension has external binary dependencies on: OpenCv (included in openframeworks) Boost Threads (recommend installing Boost Pro - http://www.boostpro.com/download/)

This extension has external header file dependencies on: Boost Shared Pointer (recommend installing Boost Pro - http://www.boostpro.com/download/)

When installing Boost Pro, make sure to include the multi-threaded DLL and multi-threaded debug DLL installs.

#################################### Visual Studio 2008 Configuration ####################################

Common Debug/Release Config

Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories: ......\addons\ofxBlackmagic\src ......\addons\ofxOpenCv\libs\include\opencv\include

Debug Config

Release Config