Flexible analog and SDI digital capture card

The Osprey® 530 is a high-performance analog and digital video capture card engineered to interface seamlessly with high-end broadcast gear for maximum performance, flexibility and reliability.

With its combination of analog and SDI digital inputs and its versatile audio input options, it is ideally suited for live or on-demand video capture and live streaming encoding applications, including delivery to mobile devices. It also serves government entities well for applications like streaming open meetings.

Key Attributes:

• Supports multichannel embedded digital audio on SDI input
• Closed-caption extraction from analog and SDI inputs
• Hardware cropping and bitmap overlay
• Cascadable architecture allows for multiple Osprey 530 cards per chassis
• Buffered DMA for ultra-high performance (full 30 fps)
• 64-bit PCI-X™ bus, downward compatible with PCI™ bus
• Advanced signal equalization to optimize SDI signal performance

Driver Support:

• Microsoft® DirectShow® API

Inputs:

Video:
One channel switchable input:
• SDI (BNC x 1)
• S-Video (mini-DIN)
• Composite (BNC x 1)

Audio:

• Unbalanced stereo (RCA x 2 via included breakout cable)
• Balanced stereo (XLR x 2)
• AES/EBU (XLR x 1)
• Embedded SDI (4 channel selectable between 4 stereo channel pairs)

Video Format:

• NTSC/PAL

Outputs:

Video: (Breakout cable)

• Composite (BNC x 1)
• S-Video (mini-DIN)

Audio: (Breakout cable)

• Unbalanced stereo (RCA)

Connectivity:

PCI-X™

• 64-bit/66 Mhz
• 32-bit/33 Mhz (PCI™ compatible)

Pre-Processing:

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

Dimensions:

• Full-height / half-length board
• 6.60” L x 4.38” H (16.7 cm L x 11.12 cm H)

Hardware Warranty:

• 1 year limited hardware warranty

System Requirements:

• Video capture requires intense bandwidth across the system bus, CPU, and memory. Motherboards with DDR3 memory architecture are highly recommended.
• Multi-core processsors are recommended to run video applications.