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The epiphan video capture application, Linux video capture workstation software – Epiphan VGA2USB Pro User Manual

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11. About Epiphan frame grabbing technology

The video capture workstation

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Epiphan Frame Grabber

captured images sent to the QuickTime API by the Epiphan USB

device driver.You can also create your own custom QuickTime-

compatible video capture application to record captured images

from QuickTime. See

“Recording videos for Mac OS X” on

page 110

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The Epiphan video capture application

The Epiphan video capture application receives and processes

captured images from the Epiphan capture API. Using the

Epiphan video capture application you can:
• Display, print, and copy captured images to the MAc OS X

clipboard to be pasted into another application.

• Save captured images as bmp, jpeg, png, or tiff image files.
For more information about the Mac OS X Epiphan video capture

application, see

Chapter 13. “Mac OS X video capture

application” on page 79

.

Using the Epiphan SDK you can create your own custom video

capture application for processing and recording captured

images received from QuickTime or from the Epiphan capture

API. By developing your own custom software application you

can include the features that you need according to your

requirements.

Linux video capture workstation software

Epiphan provides the Epiphan USB device driver and the

Epiphan capture API for Linux. Epiphan does not provide a video

capture application for Linux. However, the USB device driver is

compatible with Video4Linux so you can use Video4Linux-

compatible applications to receive and process captured images.
You can also use the Epiphan Linux SDK to write your own

custom video capture application that receives captured images

from the Epiphan capture API. The following software

components operate on a video capture workstation running

Linux:

The Epiphan USB device driver

Video4Linux

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