Video Grabber User Manual - v. 1.19 (FW 1.29)
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General description
Video Grabber is real-time video processing device that – when installed between a computer and a
monitor – captures the video signal and outputs it via network using RTSP, SMB, NFS or Broadcast.
User can also choose a format for the captured image (H.264, Lossless, PNG, JPEG, JPEG2000 or BMP)
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The device is equipped with an active video splitter that provides power fault tolerance (no
interruptions on display even when device is not connected to power source) when Graphics Adapter
on the video source provides no less than 700mA on pin 14 of DVI port.
The device can be configured using web based configuration panel using an internet browser or via
SNMP.
Video Grabber has been designed in such a way that the source signal is not altered in any way –
nothing is added, modified or removed from the signal that is forwarded to the monitor – Video
Grabber is a non-intrusive device. While grabbed signal is not modified prior to encoding and
transmission one must remember that when lossy compression method (e.g. H264) is used some
information is lost due to the nature of that kind of compression. To ensure 1:1 capture of the video
input lossless encoding should be used.
To ensure proper time stamping of the captured data Multisoft Video Grabber supports NTP protocol.
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Not all formats are available for all protocols. For detailed information see 4.2.1.1 Output protocol, p. 20
