Camera Driver Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables (Compact 7)

3/12/2014

In Windows Embedded Compact, you can add a generic NULL camera driver to support media, such as video or photographs, that are from a camera.

For more information, see Camera Drivers.

For more information about how to add or remove catalog items, see Design Your First OS.

Hardware and Software Requirements

To support video, requires DirectShow Capture (SYSGEN_DSHOW_CAPTURE). For more information, see DirectShow Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables.
Requires support for storage media, such as an SD card, USB card, file system, or MultiMedia Card (MMC).

The following table describes the catalog items and associated SYSGEN variables you can use to add the NULL camera driver to your OS.

Catalog item	SYSGEN variable	Description	Dependencies
NULL Camera Driver	SYSGEN_CAMERA_NULL	Provides a generic camera driver that interfaces to storage media, such as an SD card, to provide video or images to an application. This catalog item supplies the platform-dependent driver (PDD) layer.	None.

NULL Camera Driver

SYSGEN_CAMERA_NULL

Provides a generic camera driver that interfaces to storage media, such as an SD card, to provide video or images to an application.

This catalog item supplies the platform-dependent driver (PDD) layer.

None.