The SVS is a set of algorithms implemented as a software library. The current release of the SVS software is 1.4. The recommended hardware configuration for best performance is a Pentium II processor and a PCI bus, and a display card with at least 2 MB of video memory. Standard video cameras can be used as input devices. The cameras must be genlocked , that is, their image signals must be synchronized.
Most cameras have provisions to feed the synch signal of one camera into the other for genlocking.
If you have your own cameras, then you must use a framegrabbers to digitize the stereo video stream and place it in main memory, where the Stereo Engine can process it. The SVS has interfaces to the following framegrabbers, and will support either NTSC or PAL formats. With your own cameras, two video streams must be digitized at the same time. The Matrox Meteor II and Meteor RGB both provide dual-channel capability. Or, you can use dual Bt8xx boards, which are cheaper.