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  • Page 2 The Osprey PCI video capture device has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Osprey PCI User Guide Contents Contents ........................iii Overview ........................1 Warranties ........................1 System requirements ...................... 2 Audience ........................2 Installation steps ...................... 3 Installing the driver ......................3 Installing the video capture card ..................4 Multiple board types ....................... 5 Setting driver properties ..................
  • Page 4 Osprey 100 backplate ......................93 Osprey 210 ........................94 Osprey 210 backplate ......................94 Osprey 230 ........................95 Osprey 230 backplate ......................95 Osprey 300 ........................96 Osprey 300 backplate ......................96 Osprey 440 ........................97 Osprey 440 backplate ......................97 Osprey 530 ........................98 ViewCast...
  • Page 5 Osprey 530 backplate ......................98 Osprey 540 ........................99 Osprey 540 backplate ......................99 Osprey 560 ........................100 Osprey 560 backplate ......................100 Appendix B: Digital video on the Osprey 300............ 102 Specifics of Osprey 300 DV capture ................103 Graphs ........................104 Appendix C: Troubleshooting ................

  • Page 7: Overview

    Osprey PCI User Guide Overview Thank you for purchasing the ViewCast Osprey PCI video capture card. This user guide provides step- by-step instructions for installing and using your new video capture card. For the latest ViewCast product information and news, visit our website at www.viewcast.com.

  • Page 8: System Requirements

    The audience for this user guide includes anyone who uses or administers the Osprey 100, 210, 230, 300, 440, 530, 540, and 560 cards. Users should have a basic technical understanding of streaming media. This user guide provides information only on these cards. ViewCast...

  • Page 9: Installation Steps

    Osprey video capture cards in the system it configures all of the boards at the same time. ViewCast recommends this method especially if Osprey software does reside on your host computer. After the installer is run, the software detects the card and its drivers initiate automatically.

  • Page 10: Installing The Video Capture Card

    Insert the Osprey card into the desired PCI slot and make sure it is seated evenly. Secure the back panel of the card with the slot’s cover screw. Replace the computer cover. Plug in and turn the computer on. ViewCast...

  • Page 11: Multiple Board Types

    Osprey PCI User Guide Multiple board types There are a number of Osprey devices. Each class requires its own driver. class 1: o100, o200, o210, o220, o230 class 2: o300 class 3: o440 class 4: o530, o540, o560 class 5: o700e HD and later DSP-based PCI-Express products...
  • Page 12 Click Finish. The Digital Signature Not Found window displays. This window displays once for each Osprey board you are installing. The Systems Setting Change window displays. Click Finish and restart the system (Figure 2). Figure 2. System Settings Change dialog box ViewCast...

  • Page 13: Setting Driver Properties

    To open Osprey Config, select All Programs in the start menu of your Windows computer, then select ViewCast  Osprey AVStream  Osprey x 32 bit or (Osprey x 64 bit)  Osprey Config x 86 or (Osprey Config x 64).

  • Page 14: Osprey Config's Initial Processing Sequence

    Osprey 230 and the Osprey 5X0. Both cards can take a single input and stream its content differently. For example, you can use several bit rates, sizes and formats. You can set the defaults of a card by clicking the + icon on the left side of the device you want to configure (Figure 4). ViewCast...
  • Page 15 Osprey PCI User Guide Figure 4. Selecting a device for configuration When you select a device and filter, the Show Properties for Selected Filter button becomes active. ViewCast...

  • Page 16: Understanding The Device Properties Window

    Figure 5. Osprey’s Device Properties window Note: The Vbi Graph button is only for analog boards. If you installed an analog and a digital board (such as the Osprey 530), the graph will not display for the Osprey 530. ViewCast...

  • Page 17: Common Buttons

    Osprey PCI User Guide The Properties are organized as tabs or pages in a dialog box entitled Video Capture Properties. Input Select the video input, NTSC / PAL / SECAM video standard and Input Format. Set brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, gamma, and Video Proc Amp sharpness.

  • Page 18: Devices And Global Controls

    This change is limited to the card on which the device changed. If you make changes on an Osprey 230 card residing with an Osprey 530 card, a change on the Osprey 530 will not affect the Osprey 230 devices. ViewCast...
  • Page 19 Osprey PCI User Guide Figure 6. Osprey Config utility to access devices You will see reference to “pins and filters” in DirectShow® discussions. These terms require technical experience with Microsoft’s DirectX® 9 Software Developer’s Kit. References on tabs in the Osprey Driver relate to terms used by Microsoft’s streaming video software application.

  • Page 20: Input Tab

    DVD players, digital cameras, camcorders, and so forth. The Input tab (Figure 7) has three sections: Video Input, Video Standard, and Input Format. The Video Input control performs the same function as a crossbar filter attached to the capture filter’s Analog Video In pin. Figure 7. Input tab ViewCast...

  • Page 21: Video Input

    Osprey PCI User Guide The Input tab has the following controls. Video Input This control allows you to choose your video signal source. Video Present This indicator shows if the video source is present. Video Standard The Video Standard control allows you to select a standard used in specific countries or geographical areas.

  • Page 22: Video Standard

    You must to ensure the video standard in this control group corresponds to the actual incoming signal format. When you choose Autodetect, the driver determines whether the video feed is presenting a 525- line or 625-line standard, and configures video capture for that line format. If the input is switched ViewCast...
  • Page 23 Osprey PCI User Guide to the other line format while capture is running, the driver will detect this and automatically reconfigure for the new format. Although the driver can distinguish between 525-line and 625-line video, it does not distinguish between color standards within the 525-line and 625-line groups. That is, it does not distinguish between the three 525-line standards –...

  • Page 24: Input Format

    If you notice that there are problems with interlaced video such as “comb” effects where alternate lines are reversed, the Reverse Field Order setting might clear up the problem. ViewCast...
  • Page 25 Osprey PCI User Guide Digital inputs (Osprey 5x0 only) The Osprey-5X0 controls for analog inputs are the same as for the analog cards, as well as: Figure 12. Digital input formats When a digital input (SDI or DV (1394)) is selected, the analog controls are grayed and three controls relevant to digital inputs are enabled.

  • Page 26: Videocheck

    (this is in addition to the main capture stream). If VideoCheck does not work, the first thing to check is whether a preview stream is already running on the device. ViewCast...

  • Page 27: Videograph

    Osprey PCI User Guide Figure 13. VideoCheck utility VideoGraph The VideoGraph utility (Figure 14) launches a vectorscope/lumascope utility. VideoGraph is intended to be used with a color bar signal from a calibrated signal generator. It shows whether the signal and the card’s Video Proc Amp settings are calibrated to the correct luma and chroma levels.

  • Page 28: Vbigraph

    The controls select the field and line to be displayed. The only time you need the Update button is when you switch between 525-line and 625-line video standards. ViewCast...
  • Page 29 Osprey PCI User Guide Figure 15. VbiGraph utility ViewCast...

  • Page 30: Video Proc Amp Tab

    Video Proc Amp controls. If preview or capture-to-screen video is running when you access this page, you can see your adjustments interactively. ViewCast...
  • Page 31 Osprey PCI User Guide The Video Proc Amp tab has the following controls. Brightness and These are terms for what one would call a contrast ratio. It’s a measure of a Contrast display system, defined as the ratio of the brightest color (white) to that of the darkest color (black) that the system is capable of producing.
  • Page 32 On the Osprey 5x0, the driver cannot decode Closed Captions when brightness or contrast are set at extreme values. This will only be a problem when they are set to such extremes that normal video will not be viewable. ViewCast...

  • Page 33: Video Decoder Tab

    Osprey PCI User Guide Video Decoder tab The Video Decoder tab (Figure 17) is a Microsoft DirectShow control for setting the NTSC/PAL/SECAM video standards. PAL and SECAM are standards used in Europe and other parts of the world. Osprey cards can function in computers in various countries with different standards.
  • Page 34 This field displays the number of lines the card detects in the input signal. VCR Input This field is an unused DirectShow feature and is not selectable. Output Enable This field is an unused DirectShow feature and is not selectable. ViewCast...

  • Page 35: Refsize Tab

    Osprey PCI User Guide RefSize tab Change made to the RefSize tab (Figure 18) apply to all video previews and captures on the currently selected device. The tab controls features related to the reference size, format, and proportions of the video. You will rarely use these controls. Most users can set up this page once and not refer to it again.

  • Page 36: Horizontal Format

    It is more efficient to set the horizontal mode to match the size of the output. For example, if your target video size is 640 x 480, using Square Pixel sizing in PostProcessing Mode will avoid any unnecessary software scaling step in the driver. ViewCast...

  • Page 37: Horizontal Delay

    Osprey PCI User Guide 16:9 Wide – This setting is for 1.85:1 anamorphic video such as DVD content and PAL widescreen content. The output video size will be 852 x 480 for 525-line standards, and 1024 x 576 for 625-line standards.

  • Page 38: Reference Size For Crop And Logo Placement

    Lines 21 and 284 are used for Closed Caption in films and broadcast video. Lines 22 and 285 are sometimes used for ancillary data in broadcast video. If these lines are used for data, they will appear as moving bands or streaks across the top lines. Therefore, the most ViewCast...

  • Page 39: Source Width

    Osprey PCI User Guide generally useful start lines are 23 / 286. For cameras and some packaged content, however, all video lines starting with 21 / 284 can be part of the displayed video. Some broadcast video also uses additional top line pairs for ancillary data. We are seeing cases where the top line has to be set to lines 26 / 289 in order to hide all the data lines.
  • Page 40 2. In PostProcessing Mode this operation is often more efficient in terms of processing than a crop operation. The crop and scale are done in hardware, so if you are using the resultant 640 x 480 image directly without further cropping there is no scale/crop processing cost incurred. ViewCast...

  • Page 41: Filters Tab

    Osprey PCI User Guide Filters tab The Filters tab (Figure 24) covers two independent technologies: SimulStream and Deinterlacing. Functionality for both technologies exists on the filter tab. Figure 24. Filters tab From a practical point of view, filters have two interrelated purposes: ...

  • Page 42: Simulstream

    Osprey card or a pre-enabled card. Purchases can be made at www.viewcast.com. ViewCast includes an evaluation version of SimulStream with the Osprey card; however, any logos or changes you attempt to make will not take effect until you purchase the SimulStream option. If you have a SimulStream license installed but have not turned on SimulStream, the text line at the top of the control group will say that SimulStream is installed.

  • Page 43: Show N Filters Per Device

    Osprey PCI User Guide Figure 25. SimulStream evaluation is enabled  Select the check box on the filter tab to enable SimulStream in the evaluation mode for the currently selected device, and specify how many filters you plan to expose.
  • Page 44 The first two instances will have filter 1.1’s settings; the second two instances filter 1.2’s settings. This setting affects all devices served by the currently accessed driver. The driver will advise you to restart the system or your application if this is needed. ViewCast...

  • Page 45: Mode

    Osprey PCI User Guide Mode Figure 27. Mode The Mode group (Figure 27) selects the two main functional modes of the driver – PostProcessing Mode and Direct Mode – as well as the Quality/Throughput tradeoff for PostProcessing Mode.  PostProcessing - The following processing steps can be applied to the video:...

  • Page 46: Deinterlace

    Available for NTSC video only. Motion Adaptive Apply motion adaptive deinterlacing to all video. Click Adjust to adjust the parameters that control motion adaptive deinterlacing on the Adaptive Deinterlace window (Figure 30). ViewCast...
  • Page 47 Osprey PCI User Guide Perform no deinterlacing of any kind Deinterlace settings are applied and stored per-device and are applied to all filters and pins associated with a device. Telecine video - NTSC video that was originally created on film at 24 frames per second. In the telecine conversion process certain fields are repeated in a regular, recurring sequence.
  • Page 48 Test Mode and move the slider to the right, the number of pixels that are considered in motion will be greatly reduced. As you move the slider to the left, the number of motion pixels will greatly increase until ViewCast...
  • Page 49 Osprey PCI User Guide nearly the entire screen is considered in motion. The recommended default is 16. Smooth and Sharp When the Smooth Motion radio button is selected, there will be more loss Motion of detail in motion areas, but edges will be smoother. Since the eye does not see detail clearly in areas of motion anyway –...
  • Page 50 If the content format is a rapidly changing mix of telecine and video, or is all video, or is of unknown type, the Motion Adaptive setting will give the most consistent results. The quality of telecine sequences will not be the best possible, but there will be no instances of frames not deinterlaced at all due to telecine re-locking. ViewCast...

  • Page 51: Device Tab

    This control lets you select a pattern to display when no video signal Pattern is present. Buffers The driver indicates the minimum number of video capture buffers Requested needed to allocate for proper operation. Diagnostic For use by ViewCast Technical Support only. Logging ViewCast...

  • Page 52: No Video Test Pattern

    Capture and encoding applications generally need a large number of buffers so that they can deeply pipeline the downstream processing without danger of buffer starvation at the driver. If there is evidence of buffer starvation, in the form of dropped frames, you can try increasing the number of buffers allocated for the Capture pin. ViewCast...

  • Page 53: Diagnostic Logging

    These logs are written to the standard kernel driver debug stream, which can be captured and displayed by utilities such as DbgView. ViewCast support will supply you with DbgView if you need it, or it is available from the Microsoft developers’ website. The log is plain text but its interpretation is highly specialized.

  • Page 54: Board Numbering

    You can edit the device numbers. You can assign each board any number from 1 to 64. All boards in the current list must have different numbers. The numbers do not have to be in a packed sequence 1, 2, 3… ViewCast...

  • Page 55: Extras

    Osprey PCI User Guide The easiest way to identify boards is to start all boards streaming, and remove the video sources so that test patterns display. To set up the test patterns, enable the board ID information display by enabling Show board ID info on the Device tab (Figure 34).
  • Page 56 Setting Driver Properties Figure 35. Extras ViewCast...
  • Page 57 Osprey PCI User Guide The Extras dialog box has the following controls. Timecode Video Marking Refer to the Vertical Interval Timecode (VITC) section of this guide for more information. Vbi Pin (Osprey 5x0 only) The Osprey 5x0 boards do not provide full Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) support, and do not normally expose a VBI pin.

  • Page 58: Device Info

    AVI, this control should be set to Normal. WME9 among others requires the Normal setting if CC is used. Device Info Figure 36. Device Info This button displays useful information about the capture card and the driver, including the DirectShow name of the device (Figure 36). ViewCast...

  • Page 59: Captions Tab

    Osprey PCI User Guide Captions tab Use the Captions tab (Figure 37) to make changes to the captioning setup. When you click Both, changes you make to the captioning setup apply to both the capture and preview pins. This setting is the default setting.

  • Page 60: Pin Select

    Preview The Preview button works analogously. Both When you click Both , changes you make to the captioning setup apply to both the capture and preview pins. This setting is the default. ViewCast...

  • Page 61: Render

    Osprey PCI User Guide Render The driver can internally render closed captions on video when NTSC video is selected on the input (Figure 38). There is a control to select which channel to render (although CC 1 is the only channel that is commonly used).

  • Page 62: Closed Caption Directshow Pin

    DirectShow closed caption pin are from field 1 or field 2 of the video. The DirectShow specification is that closed caption on a closed caption pin is always from field 1; however, this extension allows application developers to access field 2 data such as XDS data (including Vchip) via a DirectShow standard pin. ViewCast...

  • Page 63: Logo Tab

    Osprey PCI User Guide Logo tab Use the Logo tab (Figure 41) to superimposes a graphic over captured video using the logo property controls. By default, the Enable Logo check box is disabled. Figure 41. Logo tab The Logo tab has the following controls.
  • Page 64 The logo property controls work best when you are already running preview video. With preview video running, you can view your changes interactively. (If your application displays capture video in real time, then the capture video can be used instead.) ViewCast...

  • Page 65: Pin Select

    Osprey PCI User Guide Pin Select When you click Both, changes you make to the logo setup apply to both the capture and preview pins (Figure 41). If you like, however, you can have different setups for the two pins. For example, you could enable the logo on the capture pin but not on the preview pin, and thereby save some CPU time.

  • Page 66: Enable Key Color

    You can set the weighting either with the slider or by editing the number in the edit box (Figure 46). ViewCast...
  • Page 67 Osprey PCI User Guide Figure 46. Weighting ViewCast...

  • Page 68: Position And Size

    This may not be desirable, since you may want the logo to expand to the same scale as the video window. Click 1X Scale to restore the logo to its unscaled size or import a logo prescaled to the new desired size to ensure the best image quality. ViewCast...

  • Page 69: Size And Crop Tab

    Osprey PCI User Guide Size and Crop tab The Size and Crop tab (Figure 48) has two functions:  It sets the default output size, whether or not cropping is enabled.  It enables and disables cropping, and sets the cropping rectangle.
  • Page 70 Setting Driver Properties ViewCast...
  • Page 71 Osprey PCI User Guide The Size and Crop tab has the following controls. Pin Select The drop-down list has three choices:  Capture  Preview  Both Reference Size Displays the full uncropped size of the incoming video. This read-only information is determined by settings made on other tabs: the Input tab and the RefSize tab.

  • Page 72: Pin Select

    640 x 480, and your crop rectangle is (0, 0, 640, 480), then your video is effectively uncropped. But if you are capturing 625-line video, with a reference size of 768 x 576, the same (0, 0, 640, 480) crop specification will truncate the right and bottom edges of the video. ViewCast...

  • Page 73: Granularity

    Osprey PCI User Guide Granularity Most video data capture formats impose restrictions on the possible width and/or height of the video, referred to as granularity restrictions. For example, the I420 capture format requires that the capture width be a multiple of 16 and the capture height be a multiple of 2.

  • Page 74: Enable Cropping

    If you uncheck Enable Cropping, your video will not be cropped regardless of any crop settings you might previously have made. The edit boxes showing the edges, height, and width of your crop will be read-only and will show settings for full-frame, uncropped video. ViewCast...
  • Page 75 Osprey PCI User Guide Figure 49. Enable Cropping If you check the Enable Cropping check box, your video will be cropped to the indicated boundaries. Previously stored crop settings will be recovered. The six edit-boxes are enabled. The Top and Left boxes set the top left corner of the cropping rectangle.

  • Page 76: Default Output Size

    Note: Pin Properties dialog default entry does not appear in the default VFW/DirectShow mapper dialog. Thus, unless a VFW application, like Virtual Dub, specifically allows for custom resolutions, the VFW app will only be able to select from the options the VFW/DirectShow mapper lists. ViewCast...
  • Page 77 Osprey PCI User Guide ViewCast...

  • Page 78: Avstream Driver Reference Information

    Examples of filter-level functions are crop, logo, and caption settings, which can be different for each video filter, and in fact for each pin of each filter. Some other ViewCast...
  • Page 79 As a programmer, you can set properties directly from within the code of your application, using either the standard DirectShow API or the custom Osprey extension API that is available from ViewCast Corp in an SDK. ViewCast...

  • Page 80: Overview Of Direct Mode And Postprocessing Mode

    (2) the capture pin frame rate is 29.97 frames per second (25.0 PAL/SECAM); and (3) the source video of either or both pins is interlaced, using both video fields, then there will be no preview video – the preview window will be blank. If the above conditions hold except that if the ViewCast...

  • Page 81: Postprocessing Mode

    Osprey PCI User Guide capture pin frame rate is less than 29.97, then the preview rate will be 29.97 minus the capture rate. In other words, the preview pin will obtain a video frame only in time slots when the capture pin does not require one.

  • Page 82: Efficient Video Rendering

    In these descriptions, it is assumed that the AVStream driver’s Preview Pin is being used. The results would be the same if the Capture Pin were used instead. ViewCast...

  • Page 83: Preview Pin To Video Renderer

    Osprey PCI User Guide Preview Pin to Video Renderer Figure 54. Preview pin to video renderer Video renderer is the oldest and simplest DirectShow renderer. It does not use DirectDraw in the rendering process, which makes it substantially slower than VMR7 described below. It is the default rendering pathway that will be chosen when an application says “Render”...

  • Page 84: Preview Pin To Vmr7

    Note: VMR7 cannot be used when closed captions are to be rendered from the driver’s DShow- standard CC or VBI pin – use the Overlay Mixer to Video Renderer pathway instead. If the driver’s internal rendering is used, the VMR7 will work and is recommended. ViewCast...

  • Page 85: Preview Pin To Vmr9

    Osprey PCI User Guide Preview Pin to VMR9 Figure 57. Preview pin to VMR9 Video Mixing Renderer 9 is the newest video rendering method and the one on which Microsoft supposedly will base its future development. The intent is to combine the functionality of the Overlay Mixer plus Video Renderer in one module that takes advantage of the latest developments in DirectShow.

  • Page 86: Video Standards And Sizes

    YUY2 and UYVY - Each pixel is represented with a total of 2 bytes (16 bits) of data. The data is encoded as separate data for luminance (intensity) and chrominance (color). This mode is mainly used as an input to software compressors. See YUV Format Details below. ViewCast...

  • Page 87: Yuv Format Details

    Osprey PCI User Guide  YUV12 planar - Also known as I420. This is a complex format in which there are in the aggregate 12 bits of data per pixel. Each pixel has 8 bits of luminance data. Each group of 4 adjacent pixels arranged in a 2 x 2 square shares two bytes of chrominance data.

  • Page 88: Closed Captioning (Cc)

    Our testing with the current version of DirectX 9 indicates that closed captions do not render properly with the VMR9 renderer in place of the Overlay Mixer / Video Renderer combination. Therefore, the default Video Renderer in combination with Overlay Mixer should be used. ViewCast...
  • Page 89 Osprey PCI User Guide When SimulStream is not installed, the driver supports two CC pin instances. One could be associated with the video capture stream, the other with the preview stream. In practice, a DirectShow Smart Tee Filter can be inserted into the graph to make any number of VBI pins. When SimulStream is installed, you can have two CC pin instances per SimulStream filter.

  • Page 90: Vertical Interval Timecode (Vitc)

    The device extracts timecode data from the vertical blanking interval (VBI) waveform.  The driver watermarks timecode into the video preview or capture pin’s output data.  A custom filter decodes the watermark from the video and renders it.  A GraphEdit graph combines the required filters. ViewCast...
  • Page 91 Osprey PCI User Guide The filtergraph is as follows:  The Osprey Timecode Filter resides in the module TCOverlay.ax and is installed and registered as part of the standard driver installation. The source code for this filter is included in the Osprey AVStream SDK.

  • Page 92: Vertical Blanking Interval (Vbi) Capture

    When SimulStream is not installed, the driver supports two VBI pin instances. In practice, a DirectShow Smart Tee Filter can be inserted into the graph to make any number of VBI pins. When SimulStream is installed, any number of VBI pins is allowed. ViewCast...

  • Page 93: Audio Driver

    Osprey PCI User Guide Audio driver Setup and control for audio are much simpler than for video. Note: The following directions are for Windows XP. Access directions and screens may appear different for other operating systems. Selecting the audio source and input volume The audio source is set using the Osprey mixer driver interface.
  • Page 94 The unity gain setting is when the volume slider is all the way up (in default driver settings). The quick-access volume control (left click on the speaker symbol) on the task bar controls recording volume and playback volume. To change record levels, go to Options  Properties  Recording. ViewCast...

  • Page 95: Audio Properties

    Osprey PCI User Guide Audio properties Many applications, including Windows Media Encoder, display a property dialog for setting audio source and volume level. This page is a general-purpose DirectShow property page that our driver has to support, but which is not quite intuitive in its operation.

  • Page 96: Audio Playback

    Device menu list at the top of the applet’s window to select which device you are controlling. Preferred Audio Sample Rate The audio sample rate is the rate at which the hardware samples the incoming audio, which may differ from the sample rate delivered to the client application. ViewCast...
  • Page 97 Osprey PCI User Guide Figure 63. AudioConfig The choices are to allow Any Supported Rate, or to force the sampling rate to be 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, or 48 kHz. If Any Supported Rate is selected, all three rates, 32, 44.1, and 48 kHz, are available for selection by the Microsoft Kmixer driver.
  • Page 98 It supplements the system mixer volume controls by providing a very wide adjustment range. You can use it to calibrate or normalize input levels across multiple inputs; or to accommodate microphones or other non-line inputs that have nonstandard signal levels. Again, Dflt restores the default value. ViewCast...

  • Page 99: Appendix A: Osprey Hardware Specifications

    Osprey PCI User Guide Appendix A: Osprey hardware specifications Osprey 100 Figure 65. Osprey 100 Environmental specifications Operating temperature range 0° to 40° C Non-operating temperature range -40° to +75° C Operating humidity range Between 5 % and 80% (non-condensing) @ 40° C Non-operating humidity range 95 % RH (non-condensing);...

  • Page 100: Osprey 210

    Appendix B: Digital Video on the Osprey 300 Osprey 210 Figure 66. Osprey 210 Osprey 210 backplate  PCI Local Bus 2.2  Compliant  Approximate card weight = 71 grams ViewCast...

  • Page 101: Osprey 230

    Osprey PCI User Guide Osprey 230 Figure 67. Osprey 230 Osprey 230 backplate  PCI Local Bus 2.2  Compliant  Approximate weight = 85 grams ViewCast...

  • Page 102: Osprey 300

    Appendix B: Digital Video on the Osprey 300 Osprey 300 Figure 68. Osprey 300 Osprey 300 backplate  PCI Local Bus 2.2  Compliant  Approximate card weight = 142 grams ViewCast...

  • Page 103: Osprey 440

    Osprey PCI User Guide Osprey 440 Figure 69. Osprey 440 Osprey 440 backplate  PCI Local Bus 2.2  Compliant  Approximate card weight = 153 grams ViewCast...

  • Page 104: Osprey 530

    Appendix B: Digital Video on the Osprey 300 Osprey 530 Figure 70. Osprey 530 Osprey 530 backplate  PCI Local Bus 2.2  Compliant  Approximate card weight = 142 grams ViewCast...

  • Page 105: Osprey 540

    Osprey PCI User Guide Osprey 540 Figure 71. Osprey 540 Osprey 540 backplate  PCI Local Bus 2.2  Compliant  Approximate weight = 227 grams ViewCast...

  • Page 106: Osprey 560

    Appendix B: Digital Video on the Osprey 300 Osprey 560 Osprey 560 backplate  PCI Local Bus 2.2  Compliant  Approximate card weight = 210 grams ViewCast...
  • Page 107 Osprey PCI User Guide ViewCast...

  • Page 108: Appendix B: Digital Video On The Osprey 300

    DV devices and work with them fully. For example, we have verified that Windows Media Encoder 9 supports a DVCam attached to an Osprey 300. With major applications the DV connection should “just work” and the information here is for background and reference only. ViewCast...

  • Page 109: Specifics Of Osprey 300 Dv Capture

    Osprey PCI User Guide Specifics of Osprey 300 DV capture The DirectShow filter used for DV capture is called the “Microsoft DV Camera and VCR.” This filter can capture video only, or audio and video together. In this respect it is different from the Osprey analog capture driver, which has logically distinct modules for audio and video capture.

  • Page 110: Graphs

    “auds” stream plus a “vids” stream. The DV Splitter Filter splits the interleaved A/V stream in to a dvsd video stream plus a PCM audio stream. Figure 74. Audio + video Type 2 graph ViewCast...
  • Page 111 Osprey PCI User Guide This graph shows basic video-only rendering. The DV Video Decoder converts the DVSD DV video stream to the YUY2 format required by the video renderer. The Smart Tee allows a capture stream to be connected as well as the preview stream. It is optional in this particular graph; however, the normal graph-building process usually inserts a SmartTee automatically.
  • Page 112 This graph shows audio + video capture with the Microsoft Video 1 compressor. The compressor requires YUY2 as its input format and so the DV Video Decoder precedes it. A compressed graph of this kind substantially compresses the AVI data, at the expense of CPU time and video quality. ViewCast...
  • Page 113 Osprey PCI User Guide Figure 80. Audio + video capture with Microsoft Video 1 compressor ViewCast...

  • Page 115: Appendix C: Troubleshooting

    Osprey PCI User Guide Appendix C: Troubleshooting Scrambled Video Image You may have set the wrong video signal format for the signal input you are using. For example, you may have told the driver to look for NTSC-M video but are using a PAL-BDGHI video source. Make sure you know what signal format your video source is generating.

  • Page 116: No Closed Captions On Dv

    Unfortunately the Recording Control does not work smoothly in this situation. The Video for Windows device will always try to act like it is the selected device even if it is not. You have to manually enter Recording Control’s Options -> Properties dialog to select your device. ViewCast...
  • Page 117 Osprey PCI User Guide If you no longer have need for the Video for Windows driver, you can uninstall it using instructions obtainable from Osprey technical support. If you are comfortable using RegEdit to edit your registry, you can instead go to the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32 and delete all REG_SZ entries named “mixer”...
  • Page 118 Appendix C: Troubleshooting ViewCast...

  • Page 119: Index

    Osprey PCI User Guide Index Audio and video graph, 105 16:9 Wide, 31 Audio Formats, 90 1X Scale, 62 Audio Level, 92 480-lines, 32 audio playback, 90 525-line, 66 AudioConfig, 90, 91 525-Line (NTSC) Vertical Format, 30, 32 Auto, 25, 40...
  • Page 120 Enable Key Color on File and Color sub tab, 58 ColorEnable, 25 Enable Logo check box, 57, 59 Composite video, 15 Enable Logo on File and Color sub tab, 57 Contrast, 25 Extras, 46, 50 Currently Using, 36, 41 CVBS, 15 Default, 25 ViewCast...
  • Page 121 Osprey PCI User Guide File and Color, 59 Microsoft Kmixer driver, 91 Filters, 11 Mode, 36, 39 Filters tab, 35 Mono Source Mode, 91 Filters, pins, and properties, 72 Motion Adaptive, 40 Motion adaptive deinterlace, 41 Motion Threshold, 42 Gain, 25...
  • Page 122 Preview pin to VMR9, 79 Show N filters per device, 37 Processor Assignment, 51 Show Properties for Selected Filter button, 9 Signal Detected, 28 Recalc, 69 SimulStream, 36 Recording Control, 88 SimulStream evaluation is enabled, 36, 37 Reference Size, 65, 66 ViewCast...
  • Page 123 Osprey PCI User Guide Vchip, 55 (cont.) VCR Input, 28 Size and Crop, 11 Vertical Interval Timecode, 84 Size and Crop tab, 63 Video Capture Properties, 11 Smooth and Sharp Motion, 43 Video capture with video preview rendering, Source Width, 30, 33...
  • Page 124 Index Weighting on File and Color sub tab, 58 (cont.) White Balance, 25 Volume control, 87 YUV, 81 Warranties, 1 YUY2 mode, 81 Weighting, 61 ViewCast...
  • Page 126 © 2012 ViewCast Corporation. ViewCast®, Niagara® (and design)™ are registered trademarks of ViewCast Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Product specifications and availability may change without notice. 40-03237-04-A...

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