Overview
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VGA Grid User Guide
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Overview
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Introduction
Epiphan’s VGA Grid™ is a streaming, recording, and multiviewer product that allows
you to capture and stream video and audio from up to 256 VGA, DVI, HDMI sources,
either local or remote. This appliance combines both Ethernet-based audio-video
broadcast streaming and recording functionalities and is ideal for multi audio-video
source event recording, control rooms, digital signage, security recording, training
and simulation systems.
VGAGrid’s multiviewer capability enables administrators to create multiple output
channels which are combinations of multiple input channels. Layout of multiview
channels supports flexible scaling/sizing and placement of any input signals to create
custom views. Multiview channels may also be recorded and streamed.
Supporting resolutions between 640x480 and 2048x2048, this solution is suitable for
a broad range of applications including medicine, black box recording, traffic
monitoring and simulators.
Depending on the model configuration the VGA Grid can capture video and audio
from 4 or 6 input sources such as:
a DVI/VGA/HDMI display or camera source,
an analog audio source.
Upon customer request Epiphan Systems can provide customized configurations of
VGA Grid.
This system supports both local and remote capture of video sources. Remote units
capture video sources and transmit the data to VGAGrid via Ethernet for recording,
streaming, and multiviewing.
VGAGrid supports multiple industry standard video codecs including Motion JPEG,
MPEG4 and H.264.
VGA Grid features the Publish Stream functionality that enables a user to direct
captured video and audio to servers or clients using available stream modes. VGA
Grid can be configured as a client to a Content Distribution Network and stream the
broadcast to an unlimited number of concurrent viewers. This functionality enables
you to stream video to the Epiphan’s portal (epiphan.net) where it can be viewed
directly from.