For years now in the student labs we've used firewire video cams and the IMAQ 1394 driver to create AVI files which then get read and converted to intensity arrays for motion analysis in a Labview app. The cheap cams are going extinct, and they want to use I-pads to create the videos which are MOV Quicktime format. So far it looks like the I-pad app they want to use can't be made to spit out an uncompressed AVI. So now I need to find out if I can either:
1) automate conversion of an MOV to uncompressed AVI and continue to use our LV analysis app as-is, or
2) find a way to parse a compressed MOV video to a frame-by-frame intensity array, and build that into our LV analysis app.
I am starting to search, but is anybody aware of an existing library or methods so I don't reinvent the wheel?
Thanks,
BG