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Is there a platform independent GigE Vision driver or software package that exists? I am integrating a Point Grey Research Flea3 GigE camera with a Texas Instruments C6678 multi core DSP chip. I was hoping to find a piece of software that had explicitly broken out any of the hardware dependent calls into a platform or portable file that I could then fill in the specific details for my platform to transmit a UDP packet, etc.

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It seems that the GigE Vision standard, while claiming to be open, is actually not an open standard at all. It requires a license fee to implement in any commercial software, and is not even publicly available for download without approval from AIA.

I was able to find one truly open implementation of the standard:

OpenGigEVision

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    I don't know what universe they get their definition of open from! – Alex Feb 05 '13 at 04:24
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    to date, I would not recommend that implementation - it is pretty incomplete - speaking as someone who's reviewed it and decided to implement one himself. Avaris also is an option to play with but it does not use the reference implementation of GenICam - this means it is also not to be trusted because GenICam is a very complex thing to support on the PC side - in addition to being implemented with gstreamer. If you write to AIA, they may provide you a copy of the standard - worked for me. – Jason Newton Apr 29 '15 at 08:38