High Performance Multi-Channel PCI Express based audio video capture card: ...

Introduction

The latest addition to the Osprey Video PCI Expresse® family of capture cards, the Osprey®-450e 4-channel professional analogue video capture card joins the Osprey-700 HD high-definition digital capture card. The Osprey-450e has been designed to simultaneously capture four individual channels of analogue video and unbalanced audio and process them independently, minimising internal PC space requirements. The extra channel density offered by the Osprey-450e increases the capture capacity whilst reducing the total cost within a single PC system.

The Osprey-450e uses the compact 1-lane PCI Express interface for a broad range of motherboard support by providing compatibility with 1, 4, 8 and 16 lane PCI Express slots. PC manufacturers have adopted the PCI Express bus as the latest high-throughput internal bus architecture. The best PC graphics cards use this bus because it unleashes the power of modern multi-core PC engines - ViewCast chose the PCI Express bus for the Osprey-450e for the same reasons.

The Osprey-450e supports an expansion option that provides additional internal video inputs and 4 additional balanced audio inputs. The internal video inputs include the selection of Component or Y/C (S-Video) for each of the 4 channels.

Product Highlights

• Professional analogue audio/video capture
• PCI Express (x1) card
• Supports MPEG-4, Adobe Flash, RealNetworks and Windows Media
• 4 Composite video inputs (BNC) on card edge
• Breakout Cable for unbalanced audio inputs
• Multiple Osprey-450e’s per PC chassis
• Supports Wide Screen Signaling (WSS) flag for 16x9 capture
• Hardware audio gain control
• Audio loop-back for monitoring
• Hardware Cropping & Bitmap Overlay
• Closed captioning extraction
• WDM compliant drivers use Direct-X for performance

The Osprey-450e is available to buy online and is sold separately or with SimulStream:

System Requirements:

• Windows operating system
• Latest Microsoft Direct-X for WDM drivers
• Free PCI Express (x1) slot - compatible with x1, x4, x8 and x16 PCIe slots

Video Inputs and Connectors:

• 4 x Composite (BNC) on card edge
• Y/C (S-Video) via internal expansion option
• Component internal expansion option

Video Input Formats:

• NTSC-M, NTSC-J
• PAL-BDGHI, PAL-M

Audio Inputs, Outputs and Connectors:

• 4 x Unbalanced stereo (2 x RCA per channel) inputs via breakout cable
• 4 x Balanced stereo inputs via internal expansion option
• Audio loop-back for monitoring