Fire-i software: DirectShow compliant drivers and control application for IIDC 1394a and 1394.b firewire digital cameras

Fire-i™ Software v3.90 (latest release: September 2011)

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™ 3.8x Software is a major new release which introduces many new features and support of new advanced 1394b cameras from AVT, PointGrey, Sony, Toshiba-Teli, Basler 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 & 1.32 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-8/16 mode conversion.
Capture frames in BMP (uncompressed), JPEG, TIFF & TIFF-16 bit and video in any video codec.

Unibrain's Fire-i™ Camera drivers are compatible with:
Note: In order for Labview to support WDM drivers (and our drivers), a separate SDK (IVision) has to be installed. For more information, visit: http://www.hytekautomation.com/Products/IVision.html

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 XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7, 32 bit and 64 bit

Hardware supported:

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 harware licensed special Unibrain Firewire PCI or PCI express adapter.

For advanced multi-camera video recordings:

Software for distributing and controlling uncompressed video recordings on different systems is available from Unibrain as
Fire-i™ Remote application.

For Developers:

Full SDK of Fire-i™ 3.81 is available from Unibrain as Fire-i API™ Vision - Imaging toolkit.

Package contains:

Fire-i™ 3.81 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).

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™ Software Order Part Number: 1137