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Specification 

 

 

Board Format

 

PCI-Express x4 low 

profile

 card, 68.9mm x 167.6mm

 

Connectors (main board)

 

DVI-I , RCA (female)

 

Connectors (audio board)

 

HD15 (male) for connection of supplied Audio Breakout cable:

 

 

Stereo line in (2 x RCA), stereo balanced in (2 x XLR), stereo line out (2 x 

RCA)

 

 

16-

WAY

 header for connection to main board

 

HDMI Capture

 

 

Supports HDMI 1.3 to 225MHz (including deep colour modes). For HDCP 

support,

 

contact the Sales Dept at EMS for more information

 

 

HDMI audio can be selected as source for audio streaming.

 

 

Incorporates TMDS equalizer to support up to 20m cables

.

 

DVI Capture

 

Supports DVI 1.0 RGB 

24

BIT

 capture to 165MHz.

 

Incorporates TMDS equalizer to support up to 20m cables

.

 

VGA / YPbPr Capture

 

Triple ADCs sampling up to 170Msps.  Full 4:4:4 sampling, 8 bits per colour.

 

5-wire, 4-wire or sync-on-green signal formats.

 

Composite Video Capture

 

CCIR601 

SAMPLING

. PAL, NTSC, SECAM formats automatically detected

 

Audio Capture

 

Stereo Line-In/Stereo balanced inputs with programmable gain 

(+/-12

D

B) 

16/24 bit sampling at 

44.1

K

H

Z

.

 

Analog stereo line-out at up to 64kHz sampling, sourced from Analog input 

or HDMI stream

 

Video Capture Memory

 

256MB high bandwidth frame 

buffer

 supports triple 

buffering

 of HD and SD 

video.

 

 

Local storage of complex scatter-gather tables for DMA engine (eliminates 

read overhead)

 

Video Processing

 

Polyphase FIR scaling engine (7x5) for hardware downscaling and upscaling

 

Colour space conversion allows captured data to be transferred in any 

format:

 

 

RGB 16 bit (5-5-5, 5-6-5), 24 bit (8-8-8) or 32 bit (8-8-8-alpha)

 

 

YUV 16 bit

 

(4:2:2)

 

 

Mono: 8bit

 

DMA Engine

 

Direct DMA to physical or virtual memory buffers with full scatter-gather 

support.

 

DMA bandwidth : up to 800MB/s 
16 independent DMA streams:

 

 

Any mix of HD and SD sources, colour space, cropping and scaling 

parameters

 

Operating System 
Support

 

Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, 

Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Linux support.  See 

www.datapath.co.uk for updates.

 

Summary of Contents for XtremeAV-HD1+

Page 1: ...XtremeAV HD1 UserGuide Version 2 0 2 ...

Page 2: ...DELS 2 Specification 3 Unpacking 4 Installing theCapture Card 5 Installing Multiple Cards 8 Software Installation 9 SoftwareOverview 10 VideoStreaming 10 Xtreme SoftwareCAPABILITIES 10 Multistream 11 Xtreme Application Overview 11 Using the card with other EMS PRODUCTS 12 EMS LIMITED 13 INDEX 14 ...

Page 3: ...l A single card solution for distance learning lecture capture and web casting Viewing analog or DVI sources from a wide range of PCs MACs Industrial Medical equipment cameras and other video equipment Videoconferencing DirectShow drivers for WDM Streaming driver supports the following applications to encode record and stream video over networks or the Internet Windows Media Encoder VLC StreamPix ...

Page 4: ...ure Balanced XLR and Unbalanced RCA from optional module HDMI audio through HD VideoChannel EMS Unified Xtreme Driver Multiple cards per system 16 streams per channel Frame sync and time stamping Direct Show interface EMS RGBEasyAPI Models XtremeAV HD1 F XtremeAV HD1 H XtremeAV HD1 B Hardware Overview ...

Page 5: ...formats automatically detected Audio Capture Stereo Line In Stereo balanced inputs with programmable gain 12DB 16 24 bit sampling at 44 1KHZ Analog stereo line out at up to 64kHz sampling sourced from Analog input or HDMI stream Video Capture Memory 256MB high bandwidth frame buffer supports triple buffering of HD and SD video Local storage of complex scatter gather tables for DMA engine eliminate...

Page 6: ... x Half height bracket X One fitted to each board 1 x Ribbon Cable Long X X 1 x Ribbon Cable Short Fitted to base card X X 1 x Audio Breakout Cable X 1 x DVI VGA Adapter 1 x DVI Component Adapter 1 x DVI HDMI Adapter Installation CD Note All plug in cards are static sensitive and are packed in anti static material Please keep the card in its packaging until you are ready to install It is recommend...

Page 7: ...f you are in doubt consult your motherboard documentation to correctly identify a PCI Express slot If the card is forced into a 32 or 64 bit PCI or PCI X slot it will be irreparably damaged when the system is powered up and the warranty will be void Reconnect all cables to the PC then connect a DVI cable not supplied distributing the DVI source signal to the connector on the XtremeAV HD1 captureca...

Page 8: ... A Component input is connected to the DVI I connector using the supplied DVI Component Adapter An RGB VGA input is connected to the DVI I connector using the supplied DVI VGA Adapter A Standard Definition input is connected directly into the RCA female connector on the XtremeAV HD1 card ...

Page 9: ...s connected to the Audio Module using the Audio Break Out cable provided 1 Balanced XLR Input Left 2 Balanced XLR Input Right 3 Unbalanced Input Left 4 Unbalanced Input Right 5 Audio Out Left 6 Audio Out Right ...

Page 10: ...ine are supported by the driver In order to control the order in which the driver uses the cards it is recommended when installing multiple cards that the J5 links on the XtremeAV HD1 are configured The example below shows the jumper link settings for up to 32 cards in a single system When two cards share the same link settings their order is determined by the PCIe bus ...

Page 11: ...event that something goes wrong during the upgrade process e g System power outage it is possible to revert to the factory settings by powering down the system temporarily removing the J11 link then powering up the system with the link removed Once the system has rebooted replace the J11 link whilst the system is powered up and restart the firmware upgrade process It should be noted that the lates...

Page 12: ...y can use Xtreme capture cards due to their built in WDM support Xtreme Software Capabilities Timestamp support for streaming synchronisation Synchronisation of multiple inputs across multiple cards Synchronise systems using network clock synchronisation For edge blending and other applications Flexible and configurable EDIDManagement Allows programming of custom EDID parameters for capture cards ...

Page 13: ...on developers who do not need to implement video stream reformatting separately Xtreme Application Overview The application displays the connected source in a window it has the following features Scales the data to fit in the window Ability to set up sources accurately settings automatically saved Save a single frame to a file in one of the following formats BMP JPEG GIF TIFF PNG Print a single fr...

Page 14: ...ions of each captured image to each display channel and instructs each channel to use its graphics engine to render the data This fully utilises the hardware and dramatically increases performance When a Direct3D compatible graphics card is used the data can be transferred direct to the graphics card in a similar manner to the EMS graphics card with the same benefit of non tearing captures When th...

Page 15: ...il to support ems imaging com with as much information about your system as possible Toenable a swift response we need to know the following details Specification of the PC including processorspeed Operating System Application Software EMS Hardware Software The exact nature of the problem and please be as specific as possible Please quote version and re Xtreme numbers of hardware and software in u...

Page 16: ...ogram 9 DVI input 5 E EMS 13 EMS CD 9 F Firmware upgrade 9 H HDMI 5 HDMI input 6 Help File 9 I Input Sources 5 Installing the Capture Card 5 J J11 link 9 M Multiple cards 8 Multiple Cards 8 Multistream 11 P packing box 4 R RGBEasy API 2 RGB VGA input 6 S Software 9 Standard Definition 6 Standard Definition input 6 T Technical Support U Unbalanced Input 7 Unbalanced RCA 2 Unpacking 5 V Video buffer...

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