Magewell Pro Capture SDI Card

About: Magewell Pro Capture SDI Card

The Magewell Pro Capture SDI is a PCIe 2.0 capture card for HD Video. It supports SD/HD/3G-SDI input and loopback

Features:

• PCIe 2.0
• Capture 2k x 2k
• Compatible with Windows
• Compatible with Linux
• Up/Down Scaling
• Deinterlacing
• Multiple Streaming
• Automatically detecting input signal
• High fidelity video processing pipeline
• Color adjustment
• Various output color spaces
• SG-DMA transmission mode
• Multiple devices on one host
• Hardware time stamp
• Mounting hole
• Rotary switch
• High-speed memory
• LED indicator
• Firmware upgrade
• Common driver
• Continuously work for 24h x 7

Supported OS

• Windows 7/8/8.1/2008 R2/2012 (x86 & 64)
• Linux (V4L2 kernel driver source code under NDA, supports x86, x64 & arm architecture)

Supported APIs

• Windows (DirectShow, DirectKS, Wave API/DirectSound/WASAPI)
• Linux (V4L2, ALSA)

Supported Software

• VLC
• VirtualDub
• OBS
• xSplit
• vMix
• VidBlaster
• Wirecast
• Microsoft Media Encoder
• Adobe Flash Media Encoder
• Any other DirectShow/V4L2 encoding/streaming software

Input Interfaces:

• BNC (SD/HD/3G SDI)

Output Interfaces

• PCIe Gen2 x1
• BNC (SDI loopback)

Input Features

• Support for input video resolutions up to 2048×2048 pixels

SDI Specific Features

• Integrated cable equalizer supporting cable lengths up to 230M for HD signals
• Support for SD/HD/3Ga/3Gb/3Ga-DL/3Gb-DS standards
• Support for 2K (2048×1080) mode
• Support for RGB 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:2:2 color sampling
• Support for 10/12-bit color depth
• Support for extraction of SMPTE 352 payload identifier
• Support for up to 8 audio channels at 48KHz
• Support for extraction of audio formation information & channel status data
• Limited support of 3Gb-DS: only the first stream can be captured
• Limited support of 3Gb-DL: (2K YCbCr 4:2:2 10-bit 1080p 50/59.94/60: captured as 1080i 50/59.94/60, Other modes: full supported)
• Limited support for capture of the first link of dual link interfaces:(YCbCr 4:2:2 10-bit 1080p 50/59.94/60: captured as 1080i 50/59.94/60, YCbCr 4:4:4 10-bit: captured as 4:2:2, RGB 4:4:4: R/B sub-sampled)

Video Output Formats

• Support for output image resolutions up to 2048×2048 pixels
• Support for output frame rates up to 120fps. (Actual output frame rate can be limited by PCIe bandwidth, and at higher image resolutions – above 1280×1024 – by the pixel clock of the on-board video processing hardware. eg. Max frame rate at 1920×1080 = ~80fps. )
• Support for 4:2:0 8-bit output formats: NV12, I420, YV12
• Support for 4:2:2 8-bit output formats: YUY2, YUYV, UYVY
• Support for 4:4:4 8-bit output formats: V308, IYU2, V408, BGR24, BGR32
• Support for 4:4:4 10-bit output formats: V410, Y410
• More output formats are supported via Pro Capture SDK for DirectKS

Video Processing Features

• Two video processing pipelines with ~180Mpixels/s processing bandwidth for each one
• Full 10-bit video processing
• Video cropping
• Video scaling
• Video de-interlacing (Wave, Blend top & bottom field, Top field only, Bottom field only)
• Video aspect ratio conversion (Auto or manual selection of input aspect ratio, Auto or manual selection of output aspect ratio, Three aspect ratio conversion modes: Ignore (Anamorphic), Cropping or Padding (Letterbox or Pillarbox))
• Video color format conversion (Auto or manual selection of input color format & quantization range, Auto or manual selection of output color format, quantization range & saturation range, Support for RGB, YCbCr 601, YCbCr 709, YCbCr 2020 color formats, Support for Limited or Full quantization range, Support for Limited, Full & ‘Extended gamut’ saturation range)
• Video frame rate conversion
• Video OSD composition (Support for PNG OSD image (up to 2048×2048), Support for dynamic loading of RGBA OSD image via SDK)

Multiple Cards per System

• Support for multiple cards plugged to one system
• On-board rotary switch to set card number, with 16 positions from 0 to F
• System hardware device tree will display “01: Pro Capture AIO” when rotary switch is set to 1, and so on
• The video and audio device names displayed in your software will include the card number (set by the rotary switch)

Multiple Output Streams

• Unlimited output streams for any one input channel
• Independent cropping, aspect ratio, color format, resolution, frame rate, de-interlacing and color adjustment settings for each individual stream

Ultra Low Latency Support

• Latency of 64 video lines
• Partial notification mode in SDK

Timestamp & A/V Synchronization

• Hardware based 100ns high resolution clock
• Audio frames (192 audio samples) & video frames are stamped with hardware clock
• Hardware clock can be synchronized across cards (via SDK)

Video Output SG-DMASwitch

• ~400MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in PCIe 2.0 system
• ~200MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in PCIe 1.0 system
• Support for auto detection of Intel tiled GPU surface
• Support for DirectGMA for AMD video adapter chipsets
• Support for GPUDirect for Nvidia video adapter chipsets

SDK

• Pro Capture SDK for DirectShow for easy integration (Windows)
• Pro Capture SDK for DirectKS for maximum flexibility & performance (Windows)

Windows Driver Tweaks

• All options can be controled by three levels of registry key: global level, product level and device level
• Video, Audio, Crossbar filter names can be customized via registry keys

Firmware Upgrade

• Multiple cards in one system can be upgraded simultaneously
• Cards can be upgraded without a system power shutdown (In most cases, even a reboot is not needed)

LED Indicator

• Status LEDs indicate the working state of each channel: idle, input signal locked, memory failed or FPGA configuration failed.

Form Factor

• Low profile PCIe x1 Add-on Card
• 87.68mmx68.88mm (without PCI bracket)

Accessories

• Low Profile bracket

Power Consumption

• Max current at 12V ~0.6 A
• Max current at 3.3V ~2.4 A
• Max power consumption ~14.3 W

Working Environment

• Operating temperature: 0 to 40 deg C
• Storage temperature: –20 to 70 deg C
• Relative Humidity: 5% to 90% non-condensing