Magewell Pro Capture HDMI PCIe Card (1-Channel)

The Pro Capture HDMI Card from Magewell is a low-profile PCIe x1 card that allows for capturing a single channel of HDMI input. It supports capturing of component plus audio, composite plus audio, and S-video plus audio via the included DB-9 breakout cable, and HDMI plus embedded audio via the HDMI port. The card also supports multiple color sampling modes, 10- and 12-bit color depths, up to 8 audio channels at 48 kHz, and output resolutions up to 2048x2048 with frame rates up to 120 fps. It is also 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 ultra-low 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
Supports extraction of audio formation information & channel status data, video timing, 3D format information, and Sony/Canon DSLR time code

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)