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PCI-X Power with Analog Video Capture

The Osprey 230 analog video capture card offers legendary Osprey® quality and reliability, designed for streaming professionals. It’s the ideal PCI-X analog card for broadcast professionals and global OEM systems integrators. With its composite and S-Video inputs and professional balanced audio features, it’s the card of choice for high quality, reliable video capture.

Industry proven performance.

More than 300,000 Osprey cards are being used in a variety of broadcast, commercial and industrial applications. You’ll find Osprey capture cards in mission-critical applications throughout the world.

Multiple streams per input.

Purchase the Osprey 230 with Osprey SimulStream® and you can feed audio and video to multiple encoders at the same time. Or, create multiple streams of the same type with completely independent settings for sizing, scaling, logos and bit rate.

Software compatible.

The Osprey 230 works with popular video capture and encoding applications. Other cards can lock you in to a select few applications.

Driver Support

  • Microsoft® DirectShow® API

Inputs:

  • Video: One channel switchable input
  • Video: Composite (BNC x 1)
  • Video: S-Video (mini-DIN)
  • Audio: Balanced stereo (XLR x 2)
  • Audio: Unbalanced stereo (RCA x 2)

Outputs:

  • Audio: Unbalanced stereo line (3.5 mm)

Video Format:

  • NTSC/PAL

Pre-Processing:

  • Closed-caption extraction/rendering
  • Software-adjustable hardware audio gain control
  • Logo/bitmap overlay
  • Scaling, cropping, de-interlacing and inverse telecine
  • Loss of video automatic test pattern generation with text overlay option

Dimensions:

  • Half-height/half-length board (6.60” L x 2.71” H) (16.77 cm L x 6.87 cm H)
  • 64-bit PCITM interface
  • 32-bit/33-MHz PCI compatible
  • 3.3 V PCI 2.3 compliant
  • Includes low-profile bracket

Hardware Warranty:

  • 1 year limited hardware warranty