Magewell Eco Capture quad SDI M.2, M.2 form factor 4-channel 3G SDI, Windows/Linux (11540)

SUPPORTED OS

- Windows 7/8/8.1/10/Server 2008/Server 2008 R2/Server 2012/Server 2016 (x86 & x64)

- Linux (support x86, x64 & ARM architecture)
* Ubuntu 12.04/14.04/16.04/17.04/17.10 (x86 & x64)
* CentOS 6.5/7 (x86 & x64)
* Fedora 25/26/27 (x86 & x64)
* Red hat 6.5 and above (x86 & x64)
* Other Linux OS with kernel version 2.6.35 and above

RECOMMENDED OS (TESTED)

- Windows 7 Ultimate/8.1 Enterprise/10 Enterprise/Server 2008 R2 DataCenter/Server 2012 R2 DataCenter/Server 2016 R2 DataCenter (x86 & x64)

- Linux:
* Ubuntu 12.04/14.04/16.04 (x86 & x64)
* Ubuntu 17.04/17.10 (x64)
* CentOS 6.5/7.2 (x86 & x64)
* Fedora 25/26 (x64)
* Red hat 6.5 (x86 & x64)

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

- 4× MMCX
* SD/HD/3G/2K SDI

HOST INTERFACES

- M.2 2280 Type M (PCIe Gen2 x4)

INPUT FEATURES

- Support for input video resolutions up to 2048×1080 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 (2048x1080) 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 (mono) 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 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

- Support for Closed Caption

VIDEO CAPTURE FORMATS

- Support for capture image resolutions up to 2048×1080 pixels

- Support for capture frame rates up to 144fps (Actual capture frame rate can be limited by PCIe bandwidth
* For the resolution of 1280×1024 and higher, the actual frame rate may be limited by the onboard video processing hardware pixel clock( For example, the maximum frame rate of 1920×1080 resolution can up to 80fps.)

- Support for 4:2:0 8
- bit capture formats: NV12, I420, YV12

- Support for 4:2:2 8
- bit capture formats: YUY2, YUYV, UYVY

- Support for 4:4:4 8
- bit capture formats: V308, IYU2, V408, BGR24, BGR32

- More capture formats are supported via Magewell Capture SDK for DirectKS

VIDEO PROCESSING FEATURES

- Video processing pipelines with ~180Mpixels/s processing bandwidth

- 10
- bit 4:4:4 video processing

- Video cropping

- Video scaling

- Video de
- interlacing
* Weave
* 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 capture 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 capture 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

MULTIPLE CARDS PER SYSTEM

- Support for multiple cards plugged to one system

- On
- board dip switch to set card number with 16 positions

- System hardware device tree will display "01: Eco Capture Quad SDI M.2" when dip switch is set to 0001, and so on

- The video and audio device names displayed in your software will include the card number (set by the dip switch)

MULTIPLE REPLICATED CAPTURE STREAMS

- Unlimited capture streams for any one input channel, but the capture streams should be in the same capture format

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 CAPTURE SG
- DMA

- 400MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in PCIe 2.x system

- 200MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in PCIe 1.x 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

- Magewell Capture SDK for DirectShow for easy integration (Windows)

- Magewell Capture SDK for DirectKS for maximum flexibility & performance (Windows)

WINDOWS DRIVER TWEAKS

- All options can be controlled 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)

- Safe upgrade

- If power off or system break down occur when the firmware is being upgraded, it will automatically restore to the initial version

LED INDICATOR

- Status LEDs indicate the working state of each channel:
* Pulsing slowly: idle
* On: input signal locked
* Off: input signal unlocked
* Double blinks: memory failed or FPGA configuration failed

FORM FACTOR

- M.2 2280 standard size

ACCESSORIES

- 4× MMCX to BNC cables

POWER CONSUMPTION

- Max current at 3.3V: 2.17 A

- Max power consumption: 7.16 W

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

- Operating temperature: 0C to 40 deg C

- Storage temperature:
- 20C to 70 deg C

- Relative Humidity: 5% to 90% non
- condensing