Osprey 530 - 64-bit PCI/PCI-X Video/Audio Capture Card

Osprey 530

The Osprey 530 is a 64-bit PCI and PCI-X compatible video/audio capture card designed for streaming media professionals. The card can input composite video, S-Video, SDI (SMTPE-259M) audio/video, unbalanced and balanced stereo audio, and AES/EBU audio. The Osprey 530 supports Windows operating systems and is

compatible with the optional Osprey digital SimulStream.

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

SPECIFICATIONS

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 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
• Reduces total hardware costs