Magewell Eco Capture HDMI 4K M.2 Card



The Eco Capture HDMI 4K M.2 Card also offers many processing and other features, including resolution scaling and a high-fidelity pipeline. The card has a native JST SHD input connector and comes with a matching SHD to HDMI type A adapter cable for connecting your HDMI signal.

Key Features

• JST SHD connector supporting included SHD to HDMI adapter cable
• Capture 4096 x 2160 DCI 4K resolution
• M.2 Interface (PCIe 2.0)
• Compatible with Windows and Linux
• Resolution scaling
• High-fidelity video processing pipeline
• Image control
• Various output color spaces

• SG-DMA transmission mode
• Multiple devices on one host
• Multiple replicated capture streams
• Hardware time stamp
• Mounting hole
• LED indicator
• Firmware upgradeable
• Common driver
• 24/7 continuous operation

HDMI Specific Features

• 297 MHz HDMI receiver
• Adaptive HDMI equalizer
• Customized EDID
• Extraction of AVI/Audio/SPD/MS/VS/ACP/ISRC1/ISRC2/Gamut InfoFrames
• Full colorimetry
• RGB/YUV 4:4:4 8-bit and YUV 4:2:2 12-bit format signals with a pixel frequency of no more than 297 MHz
• RGB/YUV 4:4:4 10/12-bit format signals with a pixel frequency of no more than 170 MHz
• Up to 8-channel IEC60958/IEC61937 audio streams
• Extraction of audio formation information and channel status data
• Extraction of video timing information
• Extraction of 3D format information
• Extraction of Sony/Canon DSLR timecode
• Side-by-Side Half, Top-and-Bottom, Frame Packing 3D mode

Video Capture Formats

• Image resolutions up to 4096 x 2160
• Frame rates up to 144 fps (actual capture frame rate can be limited by PCIe bandwidth and image resolution)
• 4:2:0 8-bit capture formats: NV12, I420, YV12
• 4:2:2 8-bit capture formats: YUY2, YUYV, UYVY
• 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 360 megapixels processing bandwidth
• 8-bit 4:4:4 video processing
• Cropping
• Scaling
• Deinterlacing
• Video aspect ratio conversion
• Color format conversion
• Auto or manual selection of input color format and quantization range
• Auto or manual selection of capture color format, quantization range and saturation range
• RGB, YCbCr 601, YCbCr 709, YCbCr 2020 color formats
• Limited or full quantization range
• Limited, full, and extended gamut saturation range
• Frame rate conversion

Video Deinterlacing

• Weave
• Blend top and bottom field
• Top field only
• Bottom field only

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)

Color Format Conversion

• Auto or manual selection of input color format and quantization range
• Auto or manual selection of capture color format, quantization range, and saturation range
• Support for RGB, YCbCr 601, YCbCr 709, YCbCr 2020 color formats
• Support for limited or full quantization range
• Support for limited, full, and extended gamut saturation range

Multiple Cards Per System

• Support for multiple cards plugged to one system
• On-board rotary switch to set card number with 16 positions
• System hardware device tree will display "01: Eco Capture HDMI 4K M.2" when rotary 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 rotary switch)

Multiple Replicated Capture Streams

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• Audio frames (192 audio samples) and video frames are stamped with hardware clock
• Hardware clock can be synchronized across cards (via SDK)

Video Capture SG-DMA

• 1200 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in PCIe 2.x system
• 800 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in PCIe 1.x system
• Auto detection of Intel tiled GPU surface
• DirectGMA for AMD video adapter chipsets
• GPUDirect for NVIDIA video adapter chipsets

SDK

• Magewell Capture SDK for DirectShow for easy integration (Windows)
• Magewell Capture SDK for DirectKS for maximum flexibility and 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

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