Magewell Pro Capture Quad SDI

The Magewell Pro Capture Quad SDI is a PCIe 2.0 capture card for HD Video. It supports 4x SD/HD/3G-SDI inputs.

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:

• 4x BNC (SD/HD/3G SDI)

Output Interfaces

• PCIe Gen2 x4

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

• Normal profile PCIe x1 Add-on Card

• 112.15mmx102.92mm (without PCI 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
   

UPC: 0814395020365