Kinovea - Forums — GenICam plugin 1.1.0

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (powda12) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:49:26 +0000

alkaman wrote:

alkaman wrote:
joan wrote:
Yes it should be fixable.
Hi Joan - Any progress with a fix? I'm looking to get a 2nd one of the same FLIR camera but would be great to know that it could work with Kinovea. Love using it for golf swing analysis by the way!
Thanks!
Hi Joan - I was able to get Kinovea working with 2 of the same FLIR cameras (Blackfly BFS-U3-16S2M-CS) using your GenICam plugin. Thank you!

What did you do to get both Kinovea Cameras to connect? One works for me, but when I try to connect two the program crashes.

Thanks!

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (philtrick123) — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:07:38 +0000

I've managed to get a Huateng Vision camera working ok in Kinovea using the GenICam
One thing I can't get to work is adjust the ROI (Region of Interest) to increase the frame rate.
Normally if I half the V access it doubles the frame rate. In the Huateng Vision app I can set the ROI, but when I open Kinovea the camera doesn't work with the adjusted ROI. If I default the camera back to normal full resolution it works again.
The Camera Config screen for the camera in Kinovea has nothing under the drop downs for Stream Format, Image Size or Framerate- only Gain has a slider. You have to click on the Device property pages.
When you go into that screen there is no option for ROI.

The camera is a HT-SUA33GM-T1V it only 640*480 at 790fps. Yuo can go over 1000fps if you adjust the ROI.

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (lfreck6) — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:36:24 +0000

Joan, I have installed your plugin in the "log folder" that opens up in the menu/help menu, and currently have kinovea 2024.1. Using just one camera (flir blackfly -monochrome) and edited and saved user settings as default using spinview. In spinview I can get 999FPS. But when opening Kinovea and selecting the Flir cam, fps freezes and drops to 30 fps. If both programs are running I am able to go into spinview and deselect "acquisition framerate enable" and the Kinovea video capture then reads correct 999 fps. But i have to do this process everytime Kinovea opens. I leave the setting for "acquisition framerate enable" unchecked in my saved user settings in Spinview and I find it weird that Kinovea is able to force a change. I feel like I am missing a setting or something...

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (DoublePar) — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:37:19 +0000

Thanks for the help! I copied the 64bit version of FLIR_GenTL_v140.cti into the GenICam folder and the fixed the issue.

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (joan) — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:04:59 +0000

Normally you shouldn't need to copy the .cti files into the GenICam folder of Kinovea. When you install the GenTL provider of a given vendor like FLIR it will add itself to the environment variable GENICAM_GENTL64_PATH. You can check in the system environment variables if it correctly added its path there.

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (alkaman) — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:00:38 +0000

DoublePar wrote:

Trying to use FLIR BFS-U3-16S2M-CS monochrome cameras with GenICam plugin 1.1.0 and Kinovea 2025.1.1 and Spinnaker 4.2.0.88, it doesn't work. The cameras show up in the navigation pane, but when selected there is no video and the camera configuration is sparse.

Did you copy over the GenTL_v140.cti file over to the GenICam folder within Kinovea? If I recall, there are two versions (32-bit and 64-bit?) so need to grab the correct one.

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (DoublePar) — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:31:37 +0000

Trying to use FLIR BFS-U3-16S2M-CS monochrome cameras with GenICam plugin 1.1.0 and Kinovea 2025.1.1 and Spinnaker 4.2.0.88, it doesn't work. The cameras show up in the navigation pane, but when selected there is no video and the camera configuration is sparse.

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (arizonaclimbing) — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:16:59 +0000

Thank you for the GenICam plugin!
I downloaded the 1.1.0 file and installed it as per the directions.
I am using Kinovea ver 2025.1.1

It is working perfectly with my
Teledyne BFS-U3-04S2M-CS .4mp mono 522fps camera.

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (HardCoal99) — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:29:05 +0000

I have 2 of the same FLIR cameras and I can verify that GenICam crashes Kinovea every time at software startup. The not so great work around is to disconnect the cameras, open Kinovea, then reconnect the cameras. They seem to be fine until the software is restarted.

I'm also using this for golf swing analysis and would love a perminant fix.

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (alkaman) — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:46:17 +0000

alkaman wrote:

joan wrote:
alkaman wrote:
Is there a possibility that this will be enhanced/fixed in the future to allow for 2 of the same FLIR cameras to work? Or is this just a permanent shortcoming of the driver(s)?
Yes it should be fixable.
Hi Joan - Any progress with a fix? I'm looking to get a 2nd one of the same FLIR camera but would be great to know that it could work with Kinovea. Love using it for golf swing analysis by the way!
Thanks!

Hi Joan - I was able to get Kinovea working with 2 of the same FLIR cameras (Blackfly BFS-U3-16S2M-CS) using your GenICam plugin. Thank you!

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (alkaman) — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:34:56 +0000

joan wrote:

alkaman wrote:
joan wrote:
It appears the issue with FLIR cameras is that when you have two of them of the same model connected at the same time, the identifier we use doesn't differentiate between them and this causes a crash. Single camera should work.
Is there a possibility that this will be enhanced/fixed in the future to allow for 2 of the same FLIR cameras to work? Or is this just a permanent shortcoming of the driver(s)?
Yes it should be fixable.

Hi Joan - Any progress with a fix? I'm looking to get a 2nd one of the same FLIR camera but would be great to know that it could work with Kinovea. Love using it for golf swing analysis by the way!

Thanks!

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (joan) — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:32:00 +0000

alkaman wrote:

joan wrote:
It appears the issue with FLIR cameras is that when you have two of them of the same model connected at the same time, the identifier we use doesn't differentiate between them and this causes a crash. Single camera should work.
Is there a possibility that this will be enhanced/fixed in the future to allow for 2 of the same FLIR cameras to work? Or is this just a permanent shortcoming of the driver(s)?

Yes it should be fixable.

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (alkaman) — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:33:52 +0000

joan wrote:

It appears the issue with FLIR cameras is that when you have two of them of the same model connected at the same time, the identifier we use doesn't differentiate between them and this causes a crash. Single camera should work.

Is there a possibility that this will be enhanced/fixed in the future to allow for 2 of the same FLIR cameras to work? Or is this just a permanent shortcoming of the driver(s)?

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (wayne) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:36:22 +0000

Hi Aroe79,

I am also analyzing golf videos as a golf trainer. I did not want the high fees of SwingCat as well and saw this as a good alternative. Any suggestions on the optimal settings for golf would be greatly appreciated , thanks so much.
Wayne

Re: GenICam plugin 1.1.0

null@example.com (star2264) — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 05:36:19 +0000

I don't have two cameras of a same model, but can confirm that two cameras do work when they are different models.