How to detect unplugged camera with DeckLink SDK?

I am using the DeckLink SDK to capture input from a DeckLink 4K capture card that has a Blackmagic Studio 4K camera plugged into it via SDI.

If I unplug the camera from the SDI In, then, if I am already capturing, then I continue to receive (black) frames from DeckLinkDevice::VideoInputFrameArrived at about the same frame rate.

This is actually very handy, however I would like to detect when this has happened. Is there any way to detect that the camera has been unplugged within the SDK?

Thanks

Jules

[Nicholas Gill]

Hi Jules,

You can determine whether a video frame has been created from a valid input signal by checking for the absence of the bmdFrameHasNoInputSource[1] flag (via IDeckLinkVideoFrame::GetFlags()[2]).

For example (from the Linux 'Capture' SDK sample):

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...
      if (videoFrame->GetFlags() & bmdFrameHasNoInputSource)
      {
         printf("Frame received (#%lu) - No input signal detected\n", g_frameCount);
      }
...

Cheers,

-nick

[1] 2.7.6 Frame Flags
[2] 2.5.5.5 IDeckLinkVideoFrame::GetFlags method