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I have laptop with Windows 10 and Marvell Yukon 88E8072 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller. I have Allied Vision Manta camera connected to my laptop. I installed Visual Studio 2015 and also I installed Allied Vision SDK - Vimba Viewer. I am able to capture images with Vimba Viewer interface soo I know that camera is working ok.

The problem is when I try to capture images in Visual Studio. I downloaded sample source code and with this code I am able to capture image from my webcam.This is code:

#include <opencv2/core/core.hpp>
#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <opencv2\video\video.hpp>
#include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"



using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
//cerr << getBuildInformation() << endl;

VideoCapture cap(0); // open the video camera no. 0 - we camera, 1- should     be GigE camera?

if (!cap.isOpened())  // if not success, exit program
{
    cout << "Cannot open the video cam" << endl;
    return -1;
}

double dWidth = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH); //get the width of frames of the video
double dHeight = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT); //get the height of frames of the video

cout << "Frame size : " << dWidth << " x " << dHeight << endl;

namedWindow("MyVideo", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE); //create a window called "MyVideo"

while (1)
{
    Mat frame;

    bool bSuccess = cap.read(frame); // read a new frame from video

if (!bSuccess) //if not success, break loop
{
    cout << "Cannot read a frame from video stream" << endl;
    break;
}

imshow("MyVideo", frame); //show the frame in "MyVideo" window

if (waitKey(30) == 27) //wait for 'esc' key press for 30ms. If 'esc' key is pressed, break loop
{
    cout << "esc key is pressed by user" << endl;
    break;
}
 }
 return 0;
 }

If I change VideoCapture cap(0) to VideoCapture cap(1), so that I should get video from GigE camera, I get a message ''Canot open the video cam'', so cap.isOpen() is false (see code above).

I am assuming that this has to do something with PvAPI driver not installed/included correctly. When I run:

cerr << getBuildInformation() << endl; in cmd I see under Video I/O there is a line that says: PvAPI NO!

My question is, how can I configure my sistem to be able to capture images from Allied Vision Camera, model Manta in Visual Studio?