Release 3.1
Supports Windows® VistaTM
Licensing: License keys can optionally be stored under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in order to simplify redistribution
- Important: Workaround for a limitation in some USB Camera and Capture Card drivers which could blue-screen Windows
- New IMVSCDirectShowEvents interface
- New OnDSEvent method on the event interface
- New Sample Applications (E.g. for Visual C++ .NET 2005)
MontiVision DirectShow Filter:
- New MV Video Scaler Filter
- New MV Polar Filter
- New MV ReInterlace Filter
- New MV Background Subtraction Filter
- New MV Constant Framerate Filter
- New MV Color Space Converter Filter
- New MV Color Channel Mixer Filter
- New MV Mask Filter
- New Video File Overlay Filter
- New MV Video Overlay Filter
- New MV Bayer To RGB Filter
- New MV Bayer To Gray Filter
- New MV YUV To RGB Filter
- New Audio Test Source Filter
- Rewritten IP Camera Source Filter
- Extended MV Ticker Overlay Filter with Unicode support
- Optimized MJPEG Encoder / Decoder Filter
- MV Bitmap Overlay Filter supports alpha blending with an alpha channel bitmap and smooth in/out blending.
- MV Text Overlay Filter with Unicode support and extended time and date format
- MV Network Renderer and MV Network Source Filter supports TCP as transport protocol
- Lots of extensions, internal improvements, corrections and optimizations!
Additional MontiVision ActiveX Controls
- Performance Monitor
- Shows filter graph active time in the statusbar.
Misc.
Release 3.0:
Camera Calibration:
MV CamCalib Application
MV Camera Calibration Filter
MV Camera Undistortion Filter
HowTo: Camera Calibration
- New IMVSCVideoControl interface
- New IMVSCSetupVideoStream2 interface
- New IMVSCVideoWindow2 interface
- New IMVSCAnalogVideoFormat interface
- New IMVSCTVTuner interface
- New IMVSCTVAudio interface
- Many more extensions, internal improvements, corrections and optimizations!
MontiVision DirectShow Filter:
- New MV Gauge Filter
- New MV Perspective Correction Filter
- New MV Integral Filter
- New MV Presence Detection Filter
- New MV Multi File Writer Filter
- New MV Playlist Source Filter
- New MV Fast Color Filter
- New MV Gray To Color Filter
- New MV IP Camera Source Filter
- New MV Ticker Overlay Filter
- New MV Bitmap Overlay Filter
- New MV DeInterlace Temporal Filter
- New MV I/O To String Filter
- New MV I/O Comparator Filter
- New MV I/O Logic Filter
- New MV I/O Renderer Filter
- New MV I/O Not Filter
- New MV Watchdog Filter
- MV Demo Source Filter provides more output stream types
- Extended MV Motion Dectection Filter
- Extended MV Blob Finder Filter
Extended MV Blob Counter Filter- Many more extensions, internal improvements, corrections and optimizations!
Additional MontiVision ActiveX Controls
- Improved startup speed!
- New Filter Graph Wizard for fast and easy creation of basic configurations.
- New Blob Filter Editor for training the blob filters of MV Blob Finder and MV Blob Counter
- New Filter Bar Window with Filter and File History speeds productivity
- New Identify Filter function shows detailed information about the selected filter
- Saves and restores video window and dialog positions of DirectShow filtes when loading MVP files
- Automatically adds crossbars and tuner devices for capture cards if available
- Shows CPU usage within the status bar
Release 2.2.1:
- Some internal improvements, corrections and optimizations!
Additional MontiVision Controls
- MV ExtendedVideoDevice Control : some corrections
Release 2.2:
- New IMVSCCommonProperties interface
- New IMVSCExtDeviceControl interface
- New IMVSCFilterGraph2 interface
- New Samples
- Many more internal improvements, corrections and optimizations!
- New MV Advanced Optical Flow Filter
- New MV Motion Direction Filter
- New MV Topography Filter
- New MV Select Mediatype Filter
- New MV Block Recording Filter
- New MV IO RS232 Trigger Source Filter
- New MV Delay Filter
- New MV Demultiplexer Filter
- MV Blob Counter Filter provides new interface for detailed blob analysis
- MV Merge Frames Filter merges frames which have different sizes
- Many more internal improvements, corrections and optimizations!
Additional MontiVision Controls
- MV Filter SDK filter contains now property pages to setup the filter function.
Release 2.1:
- New MV Object Tracker Filter
- Many more internal improvements, corrections and optimizations!
Release 2.0:
A brand new ActiveX control that manages a great deal of DirectShow routines, especially in relation to MontiVision Project files. As well as solving many problems with customising filter graphs, it greatly simplifies use of capture sources in project files intended for use across a number of systems.
Features:
- Allows use of the MV Smart Control window to display a video stream
- Change video source within a filter graph.
- Set a new file for the File Sink Filter (for capture apps)
- Set a new file for the File Source Filter and the MV Image File Source Filter
- Set a new folder for the MV Batch Image File Source Filter
- Full screen support for video windows
- Multi-monitor support for video windows
- Additional Interfaces and additional controls to configure capture sources, display filter properties and movie files.
- Input event (mouse, keyboard) handling for video windows
- and much much more
MontiVision VMR Wrapper Control
A brand new ActiveX control that wraps specific interfaces from the DirectShow Video Mixing Renderer (VMR).
MontiVision Integration Control
- New Method to allow programmatic configuration of file settings from a File Sink Filter
- New Method to allow disabling of control dialogs, for example, when a video source is unavailable.
- New MV Alignment Filter
- New MV Crop Filter
- New MV GDI Overlay Filter
- New MV I/O RS 232 Filter
- New MV I/O Switch Filter
- New MV I/O Textfile Source Filter
- New MV Mean Profile Filter
- New MV Merge Frames Filter
- New MV Motion Detection Filter
- New MV Network Renderer Filter
- New MV Network Source Filter
- New MV Profile Filter
- New MV Resize Filter
- New MV Resized Rotation Filter
- New MV Rotate90 Filter
- New MV Separate Fields Filter
- New MV Splitter Filter
- New MV Text Overlay Filter
- New MV Demo Source Filter
- MV OpticalFlow Filter : post-roll function added.
- MV Blob Finder Filter : Additional I/O output pins for further control of the MV Alignment Filter .
- MV Blob Counter Filter : Convex Hull and Approx Contour functions added.
- MV Batch Image File Source : Added SetFrameRate option.
- MV I/O Bool Source Filter : Periodical trigger function added.
- Many more internal improvements, corrections and optimisations!
- New: "Open URL ..." function (File menu) to build a filter graph to play a source from an URL.
- Scrollable Video Window
- Change name from a filter within a filter graph configuration via the filter context menu.
- Many more internal improvements, including optimisations and minor bugs.
Misc:
- New Samples
- Advanced support for loading filter graph configurations from a file, e.g. change video source filter, set files and folders, etc.
Release 1.1:
MontiVision Imaging Filter:
- New MV Absolute Difference Filter
- New MV Blob Counter Filter
- New MV Blob Finder Filter
- New MV Cooccurrence Filter
- New MV Inverse Filter
- New MV Mean Filter
- New MV Optical Flow Filter
- New MV Smooth Sequence Filter
- New MV Trigger Source Filter
- Some minor improvements
MontiVision Filter SDK:
- New Parameter Interface to configure a Filter SDK Filter within applications.
- New Parameter for temporary filter data.
- New Parameter for media sample times (timestamps).
MontiVision Workbench:
- Better filter dialog and video window handling.
- Some minor improvements.
Misc:
- Better handling of MontiVision Project Files (*.mvp) on systems with different colour bit depth.
- Some minor improvements.