XIMEA CamTool OpenH264 Library¶

XIMEA CamTool allows to save captured video into H.264 format.
In order to use this function - customer must download codec library from source and add it into CamTool directory.

Installation¶

Depending on operating system follow next steps:

Windows¶

• Based on operating system type - download 32bit or 64bit version of library
• Unzip it
• Rename it to OpenH264.dll
• Copy it into C:/XIMEA/XIMEACamTool64
• If not checked, check the xvpCodecOpenH264.dll plugin in Plugin Manager (main menu -> Plugins -> Plugin Manager, and there check the xvpCodecOpenH264.dll in the bottom table)
• reboot the computer (required by some computer setups)

Linux¶

• Supported on x86 architecture
• Download library
• Unzip it into /opt/XIMEA/CamTool
• Make sure that permissions are correct:
  

  sudo chmod a+r /opt/XIMEA/CamTool/libopenh264-1.4.0-linux64.so
  

macOS¶

• Download library
• Unzip it into /Applications/xiCamTool.app/Contents/Frameworks