Analog Input:General Properties:Advanced:Data Transfer and Memory:Compression:Raw Data Compression Type Property

NI-DAQmx Properties

Analog Input:General Properties:Advanced:Data Transfer and Memory:Compression:Raw Data Compression Type Property

Short Name: AI.RawDataCompressionType

Property of DAQmx Channel

Specifies the type of compression to apply to raw samples returned from the device.

Refer to the DAQmx Professional Tools Web site for more information and examples of raw data compression and streaming to disk.

None (10230) Do not compress samples.
Lossless Packing (12555) Remove unused bits from samples. No resolution is lost.
Lossy LSB Removal (12556) Remove unused bits from samples. Then, if necessary, remove bits from samples until the samples are the size specified with AI.LossyLSBRemoval.CompressedSampSize. This compression type limits resolution to the specified sample size.

Remarks

The following table lists the characteristics of this property.

Permissionsread/write
Resettableyes
Settable while task is runningdevice-specific
Available in Run-Time Engineyes