Osprey 230 - 64-bit PCI/PCI-X Video/Audio Capture Card

Osprey 230

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.

Key Attributes:

• Enables multiple Osprey 230 cards per chassis
• Supports global analog standard-definition formats, including NTSC and PAL
• Automatically detects and adapts on-the-fly when the input video format changes from movie frame rates to television frame rates
• Provides automatic optimization for changing motion content
• Includes logo/bitmap overlay with transparency and positioning controls
• Captures full-frame video at 30 frames per second providing full standard-definition resolution for maximum quality
• Hardware cropping
• PCI-X compatible
• Provides audio loop-back output
• Includes drivers for Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003, server 2008, Vista and Windows 7; check the ViewCast Web site for available drivers

SPECIFICATIONS

Driver Support:

• Microsoft® DirectShow® API

Inputs:

 Video:
 One channel switchable input:

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

 Audio:

• Balanced stereo (XLR x 2)
• 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 PCI™ 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

System Requirements:

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

Osprey SimulStream Option

Osprey® SimulStream® is a premium software upgrade that extends the capabilities of Osprey Video capture cards. SimulStream enables a single Osprey Video card to output multiple instances of audio and video data from a single input source to multiple applications at the same time. Use it to:

• Simultaneously send the same live content to many different encoders -- Windows Media®, Adobe® Flash®, MPEG-4, etc.
• Deliver the same live content to different playback devices, scaled and optimized for each device.
• Stream live in one or more popular formats while saving to disk in an uncompressed, editable format.

Reaching the broadest audience with an optimum viewing experience is critically important to any streaming video application. SimulStream lets you individually create, tailor and optimize video for several applications and audiences - all at the same time - live!

SimulStream lets you deliver full-frame video to high-speed Internet users; smaller, lower-rate video to DSL and dial-up subscribers, and optimized video for several different Mobile Device standards, all while saving the same content to a storage device for post-processing and other Video on Demand (VOD) applications.

Advantages:

• Optimized live streams for a diverse Internet and mobile audience
• Independent pre-processing of video for each stream
• Enables multi-format, multi-bit rate, and multi-resolution streaming - all at the same time
• Maximum efficiency without sacrificing quality
• Complete utilization of latest multi-core processors
• Maximum solution density for streaming production
• Reduced total hardware costs