Optimized for Live Streaming, take advantage of the Osprey-230’s Designed for Live features like logo bitmap overlay with transparency and positioning controls. Automatically detect and adapt on-the-fly when the input video format changes from movie frame rates to television frame rates. The Osprey-230 can do the job today and is ready for your future applications.  

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PCI-X Power with Analog Video Capture

The Opsrey 230 analog video capture card offers legendary Osprey® quality and reliability, designed for streaming.

Optimized for Live Streaming

Take advantage of the Opsrey 230’s Designed for Live features like Logo Bitmap Overlay with transparency and positioning controls. Automatically detect and adapt on-the-fly when the input video format changes from Movie frame rates to Television frame rates. The Opsrey 230 can do the job today and is ready for your future applications.

Multiple Streams per Input

Purchase the Opsrey 230 with Simulstream® and you can feed audio and video to multiple encoders at the same time. Use it with ViewCast Niagara SCX® to easily create and manage live streams in RealVideo®, Windows Media®, Adobe® Flash® Video, and MPEG-4 at the same time, in any combination. Or create multiple streams of the same type with completely independent settings for sizing, scaling, logos and bit rate.

Global Standards Support

Like all Osprey cards, the Opsrey 230 supports global analog standard-definition formats, including NTSC, PAL and most others used throughout the world. If you are a global OEM integrator seeking a single-solution deployment strategy, this card’s for you.

Professional Features for Broadcasters

Features like color space conversion, automatic telecine detection and processing, and automatic optimization for changing motion content make this a perfect choice for broadcast professionals.

Compatible with Popular Application Software

The Opsrey 230 works with popular video capture and encoding applications, including our own Niagara SCX multi-codec streaming manager. Some of those other cards lock you in to a select few applications.

Industry-Proven Performance

Over 300,000 Osprey cards are in daily worldwide operation in a wide variety of commercial, industrial and broadcast applications. You’ll find Osprey capture cards in mission-critical applications throughout the world.

Rock-Solid Stability

Legendary Osprey reliability means you can count on rock-solid performance, day in and day out.

Half-Height Profile

The Opsrey 230’s low-profile format makes it easy to use with small form factor computers. Attach the included low-profile mounting bracket and plug it directly into any 2U server. No need to use cumbersome riser cards. The Opsrey 230 is the premier solution for rack-mount encoding farms, custom enclosures and other form-factor constrained environments.

The Opsrey 230 ships with a breakout cable for video and audio inputs. A 1U rack-mount breakout panel is also available offering two sets each of composite video, S-Video and balanced & unbalanced audio connectors.

Features:

  • Cascable architecture allows for multiple Osprey-230s per chassis
  • Advanced DMA for ultra-high performance (full 30 fps)
  • Hardware audio gain control
  • Closed Caption extraction
  • AVI or extended AVI capture for use with the most popular 3rd party editing and streaming software applications
  • Hardware Cropping and Bitmap Overlay
  • PCI-X compatible
  • Audio Loop-back
  • Simulstream® Ready

Specifications:

  • Video Input: composite (BNC), S-Video
  • Audio Input: balanced stereo (2 x XLR), unbalanced stereo (2 x RCA)
  • Audio Output: unbalanced stereo line level (3.5 mm)
  • Low-Profile Design Board (includes low-profile bracket)
  • 64-bit PCI Interface
  • 32-bit/33-MHz PCI Compatible
  • 3.3-V PCI 2.3 compliant
  • Drivers available for popular Microsoft Windows operating systems
  • Linux support