Magewell Pro Capture HDMI Card (1-Channel)

Capture HD video for broadcast and editing using this Pro Capture HDMI Card from Magewell. The card is a low-profile PCIe x1 card that allows for capturing a single channel of HDMI input. It supports capturing component plus audio, composite plus audio, and S-video plus audio via the included DB-9 breakout cable. It supports HDMI plus embedded audio via the HDMI port.

The card supports multiple color sampling modes, 10-bit and 12-bit color depths, up to 8 audio channels at 48 kHz, and output resolutions up to 2048 x 2160, with frame rates up to 120 fps. It is capable of numerous video processing features including cropping, scaling, de-interleaving, aspect-ratio conversion, color-format conversion, video-frame-rate conversion, and video OSD composition.

Pro Capture HDMI Card supports multiple cards per system and unlimited output streams with independently adjustable parameters per stream. Additional features include ultralow latency, timestamp and A/V synchronization, and LED status indicators. The card supports Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems, multiple APIs for Windows and Linux, and provides Windows SDKs for easier integration.

HDMI Input

225 MHz HDMI receiver

Adaptive HDMI equalizer support for cables lengths up to 98'

Supports customized EDID

Supports extraction of AVI/Audio/SPD/MS/VS/ACP/IRSC1/ISRC2/Gamut InfoFrames

Full colorimetry support

Supports 8/10/12-bit color depths

Supports RGB 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:2:2 color sampling

Supports up to 8-channel IEC60958/IEC61937 audio streams via SDK

Supports extraction of audio formation information and channel status data, video timing, 3D-format information, and Sony/Canon DSLR time code

Support for Side-by-Side Half, Top-and-Bottom, and Frame Packing 3D mode

Component Input

12-bit ADC

Supports RGB & YCbCr (YUV) color formats

Supports Separated sync, Composite sync, Sync-on-green (SOG), Sync-on-luminance (SOY)

Supports DMT, CEA, CVT, GTF video timings

Input signals up to 165 MHz pixel rate are digitized with 1:1 sampling whereas those over 165 MHz can be digitized with horizontal sub-sampling (resulting in some image quality loss; not officially supported)

Auto detection of RGB & YCbCr color formats

Auto or manual sampling phase adjustment

Auto horizontal alignment

Supports customized video timings and customized video resolutions for CVT/GTF timings

YC & Composite Input

12-bit ADC

Supports NTSC, PAL, and SECAM standards

Auto detection of video input standard

Video Processing

Two video processing pipelines with approximately 180MP/s processing bandwidth for each

Supports full 10-bit video processing

Video cropping and scaling

Video de-interlacing (wave, blend top & bottom, top field only, bottom field only)

Aspect ratio conversion

Automatic or manual selection of input and output aspect ratios

Three aspect ratio conversion modes: ignore (anamorphic), cropping, or padding (letterbox or pillarbox)

Video color format conversion

Automatic and manual selection of input/output color format, quantization ranges, and output saturation range 

Supports RGB, YCbCr 601, YCbCr 709, YCbCr 2020 color formats

Limited or full quantization range

Limited, full, and extended gamut saturation range

Video frame rate conversion

Video OSD composition

PNG OSD image of up to 2048x2048

Dynamic loading of RGBA OSD image via SDK

Multiple Cards per System

Supports multiple cards plugged into one system

On-board rotary switch to set card number, with 16 positions from 0 to F

System hardware device tree will display “01: Pro Capture AIO” when rotary switch is set to 1, and so on

The video and audio device names displayed in your software will include the card number (set by the rotary switch)

Multiple Output Streams

Unlimited output streams for any one input channel

Independent cropping, aspect ratio, color format, resolution, frame rate, de-interlacing, and color adjustment settings for each individual stream

Ultra-Low Latency Support

Latency of 64 video lines

Partial notification mode in SDK

Timestamp & AV Synchronization

Hardware-based 100ns high-resolution clock

Audio frames (192 audio samples) & video frames are stamped with hardware clock

Hardware clock can be synchronized across cards (via SDK)

Video Output SG-DMA

Supports auto detection of Intel tiled GPU surface

Supports DirectGMA for AMD video adapter chipsets

Supports GPUDirect for NVIDIA video adapter chipsets

400 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in a PCIe 2.0 system

200 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in a PCIe 1.0 system

SDK

Pro Capture SDK for DirectShow for easy integration (Windows)

Pro Capture SDK for DirectKS for maximum flexibility & performance (Windows)

Windows Driver Tweaks

All options can be controlled by three levels of registry key: global level, product level, and device level

Video, audio, crossbar filter names can be customized via registry keys

Firmware Upgrade

Multiple cards in one system can be upgraded simultaneously

Cards can be upgraded without a system power shutdown when it is not in use

Supports Safe upgrade

If power off or system breakdown occurs when the firmware is being upgraded, it will automatically restore to the initial version (only available for firmware version 1.21 and above)

Recommended OS

Windows

Windows 7 Ultimate/8.1 Enterprise/10 Enterprise/Server 2008 R2 DataCenter/Server 2012 R2 DataCenter/Server 2016 R2 DataCenter (x86 & x64)

Linux

Ubuntu 12.04/14.04/16.04 (x86 & x64)

Ubuntu 17.04/17.10/18.04 (x64)

CentOS 6.5/7.2 (x86 & x64)

Redhat 6.5 (x86 & x64)

Mac

OS X 10.9.5/10.10/10.11.2/10.11.3/10.11.4

macOS 10.12/10.13.2/10.13.3/10.14.3/10.15

Supported APIs

Windows

DirectShow

DirectKS

Wave API/DirectSound/WASAPI

Linux

V4L2

ALSA

Mac

AVCaptureSession

AudioUnit5

Supported Software

VLC

VirtualDub

OBS

XSplit

vMix

VidBlaster

Wirecast

Microsoft Media Encoder

Adobe Flash Media Encoder

Any other DirectShow/V4L2/AVCaptureSession encoding/streaming software

In the Box

Magewell Pro Capture HDMI Card (1-Channel)

Low Profile Bracket

DB9 Breakout Cable