Magewell Eco Capture Dual SDI M.2 Card

Eco Capture Dual SDI M.2 Card also offers many processing and other features, including resolution scaling and a high-fidelity pipeline. The card features two native MMCX input connectors and comes with MMCX-to-BNC adapter cables for connecting your SDI signals.

Key Features

• Two MMCX connectors supporting included MMCX to SDI adapter cables
• Capture 2K/3G/HD/SD-SDI signals (up to 2048 x 1080)
• 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

SDI Specific Features

• Integrated cable equalizer supporting cable lengths up to 755' for HD signals
• SD/HD/3Ga/3Gb/3Ga-DL/3Gb-DS standards
• 2K (2048 x 1080) mode
• RGB 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:2:2 color sampling
• 10/12-bit color depth
• Extraction of SMPTE 352 payload identifier
• Up to 8 (mono) audio channels at 48 kHz
• Extraction of audio formation information and channel status data
• Limited support of 3Gb-DS: only the first stream can be captured
• Limited support for capture of the first link of dual link interfaces (YCbCr 4:2:2 10-bit 1080p 50/59.94/60: captured as 1080i 50/59.94/60; YCbCr 4:4:4 10-bit: captured as 4:2:2; RGB 4:4:4: R/B sub-sampled
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Video Capture Formats

• Image resolutions up to 2048 x 2160
• Frame rates up to 144 fps (actual capture frame rate can be limited by PCIe bandwidth; for 1280 x 1024 and higher, the actual frame rate may be limited by the onboard video processing hardware pixel clock - for example, the maximum frame rate of 1920 x 1080 resolution can up to 80 fps)
• 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 180 megapixels processing bandwidth
• 8-bit 4:4:4 video processing
• Cropping
• Scaling
• Deinterlacing
• Video aspect ratio conversion
• Color format conversion
• 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 Dual SDI 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

• Unlimited capture streams for any one input channel (but in the same format)

Timestamp & A/V Synchronization

• Hardware based 100ns high resolution clock
• 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

• 400 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in PCIe 2.x system
• 200 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
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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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