Viewcast Osprey-450e User Manual

Osprey® 240e/450e User Guide AVStream Driver Version 4.6

Installation Steps 4 ViewCast Custom installing AVStream During the installation process, if you choose a Custom installation, your options are li

Appendix C: Troubleshooting 94 ViewCast Poor video quality at large frame sizes Large frame sizes with the deep pixel depth (24- or 32-bit), or com

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 95 previous Video for Windows driver, but if you have multiple Osprey cards installed you do have the option

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 97 Index 16:9 Wide, 28 2-Frame Algorithm, 39 3-Frame Algorithm, 39 525-Line (NTSC) Vertical Format, 31 A Acc

Appendix C: Troubleshooting 98 ViewCast F File and Color, 56 filtergraph, 72 filters, 13 Filters tab, 32 filters, pins, and properties, 67 G Granul

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 99 R Recalc button, 64 Recording Control, 81 Reference Size for Crop and Logo Placement, 30 RefSize tab, 26

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Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 5 All computer cards are sensitive to electrostatic discharge. Slight electrostatic discharges from clothing

Installation Steps 6 ViewCast The New Hardware Wizard runs and the Found New Hardware window appears followed by the Digital Signature Not Found wi

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 7 Setting Driver Properties After installing the Osprey card and AVStream driver, you need to access the ca

Setting Driver Properties 8 ViewCast OspreyConfig’s initial processing sequence After clicking on the Osprey Config icon, the first screen of the

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 9 Figure 6 shows the user interface that appears when you select a filter. We expanded the Osprey 450e Devic

Setting Driver Properties 10 ViewCast When you choose Device 1A and Video Filter 1, the Show Properties for Selected Filter button becomes active (

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 11 Understanding the device properties window Osprey’s device properties window enables you to view and chan

Setting Driver Properties 12 ViewCast The Osprey 240e and 450e cards have the following tabs: Input Select the video input, NTSC / PAL / SECAM vide

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 13 Devices and global controls The Osprey 240e and Osprey 450e video capture cards can present multiple outp

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Setting Driver Properties 14 ViewCast Input tab The source of data from an Osprey 240e/450e that streams to the Internet can come from a number of

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 15 The Input tab has the following controls. Video Input The Video Input section of the tab allows you to se

Setting Driver Properties 16 ViewCast Osprey 450e AV option hardware add-on-device In addition to the standard components built into the Osprey 450

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 17 Video input The Video Input (Figure 16) lets you select the video signal source from a drop-down list. F

Setting Driver Properties 18 ViewCast The Osprey -450e’s optional auxiliary expansion connector for video adds three additional inputs, over three

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 19 Input Format: analog inputs Below the Video Standard drop-down list is the Input Format (Figure 18). Figu

Setting Driver Properties 20 ViewCast VideoCheck VideoCheck opens a simple video monitoring window (Figure 20). You can see the immediate effect of

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 21 chroma display, the small solid rectangular cursor corresponds to the luma cursor – that is, if the luma

Setting Driver Properties 22 ViewCast Video Proc Amp tab Video Proc Amp stands for Video Process Amplifier. It controls various characteristics of

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 23 The Video Proc Amp tab has the following controls. Brightness and Contrast These terms are used for contr

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast iii Contents Overview ...

Setting Driver Properties 24 ViewCast Video Decoder tab The Video Decoder tab is a Microsoft DirectShow standard control for setting the NTSC/PAL/S

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 25 The Video Decoder tab has the following controls. Video Standard Select the video standard Signal Detecte

Setting Driver Properties 26 ViewCast RefSize tab Changes made to the RefSize tab (Figure 25) apply to all video previews and captures on the curre

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 27 Source Width The Source Width control can be used to trim the black left and right edges of an image. Ref

Setting Driver Properties 28 ViewCast 16:9 Wide Select 16:9 Wide for 1.85:1 anamorphic video such as DVD content and any widescreen content. The ou

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 29 You can set start lines all the way up to 27/290. (On the PCI products which have a Direct Mode option, P

Setting Driver Properties 30 ViewCast The driver performs the source width adjustment in hardware if possible; otherwise it performs it in software

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 31 525-Line (NTSC) Vertical Format Figure 30. 525-Line (NTSC) Vertical Format This control is only meaningf

Setting Driver Properties 32 ViewCast Filters tab The Filters tab (Figure 31) covers two independent technologies: SimulStream and deinterlacing. F

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 33 Help Click Help to access the user guide. Filters have two interrelated purposes:  They allow applicat

Contents iv ViewCast Device tab ...

Setting Driver Properties 34 ViewCast The driver includes a free evaluation version. Evaluation mode works the same as licensed SimulStream except

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 35 list of capture devices with SimulStream enabled, Osprey 240 Video Device 1.1, Osprey 240 Video Device 1.

Setting Driver Properties 36 ViewCast Deinterlace Figure 35. Deinterlace settings The deinterlace group has four radio buttons. Auto Apply inverse

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 37  Vertical scaling: When the driver scales video it treats both fields of the frame as a single progress

Setting Driver Properties 38 ViewCast Currently Using group These indicators allow you to see the current algorithm. These are not control buttons;

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 39 Adaptive Deinterlace window Use the adjust dialog to adjust the parameters that control motion adaptive d

Setting Driver Properties 40 ViewCast deinterlacing but uses slightly more processing power.  The 3-frame algorithm adds one frame time of latenc

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 41 Motion Adaptive – 2-frame. Once that is done, other factors to reduce processing time are the following:

Setting Driver Properties 42 ViewCast Device tab Device controls (Figure 38) are less often used items. Unless specifically noted, changes made on

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 43 OK Click OK to accept the settings. Cancel Click Cancel to reject the settings and close the window. Appl

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast v Audio driver ...

Setting Driver Properties 44 ViewCast Capture and encoding applications generally need a large number of buffers so they can deeply pipeline the do

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 45 Log to File enables writing diagnostics directly to a file. Select a directory and file name to complete

Setting Driver Properties 46 ViewCast Device Info Figure 42. Device Info The Device Info window displays useful information about the capture card

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 47 Figure 43. Board Numbering Each line represents the information for one Osprey board. Only boards that a

Setting Driver Properties 48 ViewCast issues before saving the numbers and exiting. However, you can exit by clicking Cancel at any time, and your

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 49 Extras Extras (Figure 45) are features of the AVStream driver that are new, not fully defined, or subject

Setting Driver Properties 50 ViewCast Captions tab The Osprey 240e/450e driver has four ways of delivering NTSC Closed Caption (CC) data:  It can

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 51 The Captions tab has the following controls. Pin Select The drop-down list has three choices:  Capture

Setting Driver Properties 52 ViewCast Render NTSC Closed Captions On Video Figure 47. Render NTSC Closed Caption On Video When you select Render N

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 53 CC Pin Figure 49. CC Pin This group controls whether the closed-caption character pairs the DirectShow C

Setting Driver Properties 54 ViewCast Logo tab Figure 50. Logo tab The Logo tab has the following controls. Pin Select The drop-down list has thre

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 55 Weighting on File and Color sub tab Set the degree of transparency of the logo. Position and Size sub tab

Setting Driver Properties 56 ViewCast Pin Select You can have different setups for the two pins. For example, you could enable the logo on the capt

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 57 Enable Key Color Figure 53. Enable Key Color You can control the key color and the transparency effect.

Setting Driver Properties 58 ViewCast Weighting The degree of weighting of the logo is variable through 100 steps. If the setting is 100, the logo

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 59 The four Nudge buttons, L, R, U, and D, move the logo left, right, up, or down exactly one pixel at a tim

Setting Driver Properties 60 ViewCast Size and Crop tab This tab (Figure 57) has two functions. It sets the default output size, whether or not you

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 61 Pin Select This field has three choices:  Capture  Preview  Both Reference Size Displays the full u

Setting Driver Properties 62 ViewCast The reference width and height represent the full uncropped size of the incoming video. Your crop settings ar

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 63 If your Pin Select setting is Capture, only the Capture granularity box is enabled; similarly for Preview

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 1 Overview Thank you for purchasing the ViewCast Osprey 240e/450e video capture card. This user guide provid

Setting Driver Properties 64 ViewCast cropping rectangle. The Right and Bottom boxes set the bottom right. The Width and Height boxes set the size

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 65 Default Output Size Figure 60. Default Output Size The standard DirectShow Pin Properties dialog allows

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 67 AVStream driver reference information DirectShow technology uses terms with specific meanings, for exampl

AVStream Driver Reference Information 68 ViewCast Both devices, filters, and pins may have associated Properties. Properties are control parameters

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 69 Post-Processing mode The Osprey 240e/450e driver does more than simply move video from the hardware to t

AVStream Driver Reference Information 70 ViewCast  With SimulStream enabled, there can be multiple capture pins and multiple preview pins. Each c

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 71 Efficient Video Rendering The following information is primarily useful to developers, but may also be he

AVStream Driver Reference Information 72 ViewCast Preview Pin to VMR7 Figure 65. Video Mixing Renderer 7 VMR7 is short for Video Mixing Renderer 7

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 73 Preview Pin to VMR9 Figure 66. Video Mixing Renderer 9 Video Mixing Renderer 9 is the newest video rende

Overview 2 ViewCast System requirements The following system requirements relate to your Osprey® video capture card only. The video capture or enco

AVStream Driver Reference Information 74 ViewCast

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 75 Video standards and sizes Video standard refers to whether the video signal format is NTSC, PAL, or SECAM

AVStream Driver Reference Information 76 ViewCast  RGB24 – Each pixel has three bytes (24 bits) of data – one each for red, green, and blue. This

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 77 Closed captioning (CC) The Osprey AVStream driver supports NTSC closed captions in three separate ways. 

AVStream Driver Reference Information 78 ViewCast  On the RefSize property page, in the control group, you must select 480-line video and the rad

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 79 CC streaming interface The driver supports an Osprey custom property which provides the closed caption ch

AVStream Driver Reference Information 80 ViewCast This capability requires custom programming. Refer to the Osprey AVStream SDK Users’ Guide. A sam

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 81 Audio driver Setup and control for audio are much simpler than for video. Selecting the audio source and

The Audio Driver 82 ViewCast the list of audio input and output devices, including one or more Osprey cards. When you have chosen the device, click

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 83 Audio properties page Many applications, including Windows Media Encoder, display the illustrated propert

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 3 Installation Steps In all cases, use the setup.exe program on the product CD or in the web package if you

The Audio Driver 84 ViewCast Audio formats The Osprey hardware supports sampling of analog audio at 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz in 16-bit PCM format. Captu

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 85 In Dual Mono mode, each audio device enumerates as two separate filters, respectively for the left and ri

The Audio Driver 86 ViewCast Audio level This control sets the hardware Input Reference level and software-based Boost factor. The settings are sep

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 87 Appendix A: Osprey hardware specifications Osprey 240e Environmental specifications Operating temperatur

Appendix A: Osprey Hardware Specifications 88 ViewCast Figure 75. Osprey 240e long back plate Figure 76. Osprey 240e short back plate Figure 77.

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 89 Osprey 450e Figure 78. Osprey 450e back plate

Appendix A: Osprey Hardware Specifications 90 ViewCast

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 91 Appendix B: Osprey 450e audio cable Figure 79 shows the male connector on the cable. Figure 79. 9 pin min

Osprey 240e/450e User Guide ViewCast 93 Appendix C: Troubleshooting Color bars on video screen The Osprey 240e/450e AVStream driver has a built-i