VisionAV-HD

Professional audio and

video capture card

HIGH PERFORMANCE CARD FEATURES

The VisionAV-HD has three independen video capture inputs - two  4 Lane PCIe bus, Net 1.6 GB/s total capture bandwidth
supporting High Definition capture and a third supporting Standard  Frame buffer memory - 2 x 256MB
Definition composite video. The VisionAV-HD also adds multiple channels
 Direct DMA to graphics memory of third party graphics cards
of audio capture, which can be synchronised in software using time
stamping with all video capture channels.  B
 alanced (XLR) and Unbalanced (RCA) audio capture from optional
audio module (AM2)
Both DVI High Definition inputs support HDMI, DVI, RGB and Analog
 Datapath Linux driver supports common Linux distributions
Component (YPbPr) input via a DVI-I connector*, at resolutions up to 4096 x
(audio support)
4096 pixels and supports 1080p (1920 x 1080) at 6o frames per second.
Two DVI-I capture channels
The VisionAV-HD captures all three video channels simultaneously and
triple buffers them into onboard storage for tear free video, alongside an HDMI/DVI/RGB/YPbPr video capture
audio stream that can be selected from one of the HDMI or one of the HDMI embedded audio capture and streaming
analog audio ports. This data can then be processed and copied using
SD/composite capture channel
DMA transfers to the host system for display, storage or streaming.
PAL, NTSC, SECAM up to 720 x 576 at 16 Bit colour

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VIDEO STREAMING
DirectShow drivers for WDM Streaming driver supports the following applications, to encode, record and stream video over
networks or the Internet:

 Microsoft Media Encoder®

 VLC
VirtualDub
Any other DirectShow encoding software

For streaming applications, the VisionAV-HD can be used with Windows Media Encoder to compress and stream captured
video. To replay the video, use Windows® Media Player.

Any application compatible with Windows DirectShow technology can use the VisionAV-HD due to it built-in WDM support.

AUDIO FEATURES
Flexible input/output mixing capabilities
Supports audio capture to the PCI Express bus at popular sample rates from 44.1 to 96k samples/s at 16 bits/sample
Playback and mixing of HDMI embedded audio
Input and output connection via the Audio Breakout Cable which is supplied with the optional AM2 audio module attached
to a 15 pin high density D-type connector on the Audio Module. The physical connections comprise of:
Left and right balanced audio input on female XLR jacks
 Left and right unbalanced line inputs on female RCA connectors
L eft and right unbalanced line outputs on female RCA connectors for direct passthrough of selected analog input

To see our full range of Vision Features, please visit our product section on our website www.datapath.co.uk.

SOFTWARE CAPABILITIES
Timestamp support for streaming synchronisation
 Synchronisation of multiple inputs across multiple cards
 Synchronise systems using network clock synchronisation
 For edge blending and other applications

Flexible and configurable EDID Management

 Allows programming of custom EDID parameters for capture cards

Low input to output capture latency

 DMA to third party graphics vendors back and front buffers via Direct3D
 Compatibility with AMD DirectGMA
 Compatibility with Nvidia GPUDirect

User Mode filter for source selection

Enables cropping support in DirectShow on all inputs
 Supports Start and Stop trigger interface on all Vision inputs

Datapath Unified Vision Driver

 Multiple cards per system, 16 streams per input
Frame sync and time stamping DirectShow interface
The RGBEasy API for advanced audio and video control
F ully integrated for use with Datapath Wall Control software for video wall applications

COMPATIBILITY
The VisionAV is supported by the following operating systems: Linux, Windows® XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003,
Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10.

Datapath SDK is included for software developers.

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SPECIFICATION
BOARD FORMAT AUDIO CAPTURE POWER REQUIREMENTS
PCI Express x4 half size plug-in card, Stereo Line-In/Stereo balanced inputs with Max current at 12V – 1A
110mm x 170mm programmable gain (+/-12dB) Max current at 3.3V – 1A
16 bit sampling at 44.1/48/96kHz Thermal dissipation – 15.5W
CONNECTORS (MAIN BOARD)
Analog stereo line-out for direct passthrough of
2 x DVI-I , 1 x RCA (female) OPERATING TEMPERATURE
selected input at up to 64kHz sampling, sourced
0 ºC to 35 ºC / 32 ºF to 96 ºF
HDMI CAPTURE from Analog input or HDMI channel
Supports HDMI 1.3 to 225MHz (including deep STORAGE TEMPERATURE
VIDEO CAPTURE MEMORY
colour modes) -20 ºC to 70 ºC / -4 ºF to 158 ºF
256MB high bandwidth frame buffer supports
For HDCP support, contact the Sales
triple buffering of HD and SD video RELATIVE HUMIDITY
Department at Datapath for more information
Local storage of complex scatter-gather tables 5% to 90% non-condensing
HDMI audio can be selected as source for audio
for DMA engine (eliminates read overhead)
streaming WARRANTY
Incorporates TMDS equalizer to support up to VIDEO PROCESSING 3 years
20m cables Polyphase FIR scaling engine (7 x 5) for
hardware downscaling and upscaling
DVI CAPTURE
Colour space conversion allows captured data
Supports DVI 1.0 RGB 24bit capture to 165MHz
to be transferred in any format:
Incorporates TMDS equalizer to support up to
RGB 16 bit (5-5-5, 5-6-5), 24 bit (8-8-8) or 32 bit
20m cables
(8-8-8-alpha)
VGA / YPBPR CAPTURE YUV 16 bit (4:2:2)
Triple ADCs sampling up to 170Msps Mono: 8bit
Full 4:4:4 sampling, 8 bits per colour
DMA ENGINE
5-wire, 4-wire or sync-on-green signal formats
Direct DMA to physical or virtual memory
COMPOSITE VIDEO CAPTURE buffers with full scatter-gather support
CCIR601 sampling. PAL, NTSC, SECAM formats 16 independent DMA streams any mix of HD
automatically detected and SD sources, colour space, cropping and
scaling parameters

MODELS AVAILABLE
Order Code: VisionAV-HD
HDMI/ DVI/ RGB/ YPbPr/ SD/ Composite video capture card

* Adapters for other types of video connectors such as DVI/HDMI, DVI/VGA or DVI/Component are not included with the VisionAV-HD but are available from Datapath,
contact our Sales team for details.
All products are shipped with the latest software available, unless stated otherwise. Special requirements may be organised by contacting our Sales team.

Datapath UK and Datapath North America

Corporate Headquarters 2490 General Armistead Avenue,
19-VisionAV-HD-datasheet-en-v1.2

Bemrose House, Bemrose Park, Suite 102, N

 orristown,
Wayzgoose Drive, Derby, PA 19403, 
DE21 6XQ, United Kingdom USA
+44 (0) 1332 294 441 +1 484 679 1553
sales-uk@datapath.co.uk sales-us@datapath.co.uk

www.datapath.co.uk