TIMEINFO

Name

timeinfo

Purpose (one Line Only)

Collect IOTA-VTI time codes from one or more video frames

Description

Take one or more images extracted from a video file containing time
stamps from an IOTA_VTI timer and decode time and field number.

Calling Sequence

timeinfo,fnlist,otime,onum,etime,enum

Inputs

fnlist - String or string array with files names (fully qualified with
path if needed). The input files are expected to be single
images extracted from a video file. The file formats allowed
are those that are readable by IDL's read_image utility.

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

DEBUG - Flag, if set will generate copious output and graphics.
Use with caution. It's best not to use this flag when
processing a long list of files.

Outputs

otime - String with the UT time of the odd field HH:MM:SS.ssss
onum - Long integer with the field number of the odd field
etime - String with the UT time of the even field HH:MM:SS.ssss
enum - Long integer with the field number of the even field

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

see getdigits.pro for any restrictions on decoding process

Procedure

Modification History

2016/03/08, Written by Marc W. Buie, Southwest Research Institute
2016/03/25, MWB, added DEBUG, XOFF, and YOFF keywords