[Phoenix (Steve)]

Hi Folks

Hope someone can help…..

I recently obtained a DBK21 (colour) CCD camera and have captured some test data (a stationary daytime target) using video format Y800 and codec Y800 in IC Capture v2.0. I have used VirtualDub v1.8.8 to export the video image sequence out to individual BMP files per frame and have attempted to use RGBSplit v2.1.0 to split these BMP files into their separate colour channels.

The problem is each of the Blue, Green and Red BMP files created using RGBSplit are all the same – there is no difference between each of the files. On closer inspection all three BGR BMP files are also the same as the original BMP file created using VirtualDub. Moreover all of the BGR BMP files as well as the original have 3 channels, all identical.

I would have thought that VirtualDub would create a single channel BMP for each frame that shows the bayer pattern (and not a three channel BMP) from which RGBSplit would interpret and separate the single channel bayer pattern into its RGB channels.

So does RGBSplit require a three channel BMP for input or a single channel BMP from which it separates the bayer pattern into BGR channels?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Steve