Osprey 260e - PCI Express Video/Audio Capture Card

Osprey 260e

The Osprey 260e -  professional analog video capture card, featuring legendary Osprey quality for the latest PC architectures. It's designed especially for the super high-speed PCI Express® (PCIe) bus.

Optimized for the Latest PC architectures

PC manufacturers have adopted the PCIe bus as the latest high-throughput internal bus architecture. The best PC graphics cards use this bus because it unleashes the power of modern multi-core PC engines with unfettered access to all PC resources. This type of power can support multiple Osprey PCIe cards in one system.

Key Attributes:

• Hardware audio gain control
• Closed-caption extraction
• Cropping and bitmap overlay
• Audio loop-back for monitoring
• Available with factory-enabled SimulStream
• Customized messaging superimposed on color bars upon loss of video signal
• Supports Wide Screen Signaling (WSS) flag for automatic 16 x 9 capture
• Install multiple cards per chassis, or mix-and-match with other Osprey cards
• Works with popular video encoding applications
• Provides audio loop-back output
• Drivers available for Microsoft® operating systems

Driver Support:

• Microsoft® DirectShow® API

Inputs:

 Video:
 One channel switchable input:

• Composite (BNC x 1)
• Y/C (BNX x 2) (Includes BNC to mini-DIN adapter)
• Components (BNC x 3)

 Audio:

• Balanced stereo (XLR x 2)
• Unbalanced stereo (RCA x 2)

Outputs:

 Audio:

• Unbalanced stereo line (3.5 mm)

Video Format:

• NTSC/PAL

Connectivity:

 PCIe (x 1):

Slots: x 1, x 4, x 8, or x 16

PCIe 1.1

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:

• Half-height / half-length board
• 5.25" L x 2.71"H (13.34 cm L x 6.89 cm H)
• 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. North Bridge PCIe slots are strongly 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