Merlin 2003 DV and MPEG-2 Recorder and Dual Stream Decoder
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1. Overview
1.0 Introduction
Skymicro’s Merlin 2003 DV and MPEG-2 Recorder and Dual Stream Decoder board is a complete video capture
and playback solution in a single half-sized PCI card. It is ideally suited for applications such as digital video
broadcast, video distribution applications, authoring, and nonlinear editing.
The Merlin 2003 DV and MPEG-2 Recorder and Dual Stream Decoder includes all the software necessary to
record, compress, process and play back audio and video clips in DV and MPEG-2 formats. The audio and video
are treated separately so audio can be added to video at a later time or vice versa. The Merlin board can also play
audio and video at variable speed. Merlin has many elaborate Non Linear Editing features; one of these is to allow
you to play back two streams of video and then transition from one to the other using many selectable transition
effects. By using a highly sophisticated processor all this can be done in Real Time. Moving from any frame to any
other frame in a video clip is a snap with Merlin. All you need to do is enter a frame number or move a slide control
and you are instantly at the desired frame. You can even give Merlin a play list to specify all the clips you wish to
play, and all the transition effects you wish to occur between your clips with starting and ending frame numbers,
and Merlin will do the rest. Merlin can even convert files to and from DV, MPEG-2 and many other picture and
video formats.
