Magewell Eco Capture 12G-SDI 4K Plus M.2 Capture Card

Magewell 115610001 Overview

Capture 10-bit video at rates of up to DCI 4K 60 using the Eco Capture 12G-SDI 4K Plus M.2 Capture Card from Magewell. This compact M.2 2280 unit features single 12G-SDI and quad 3G-SDI inputs, capturing your stream via PCIe 3.0 x 4 with eight channels of embedded audio. Features include auto signal detection, low-latency and SG-DMA transmission modes, color conversion, and support for multiple versions of Windows and Linux.

Note that the Eco Capture cards do not support MacOS operating systems.

Process and Capture Features

• Video processing pipelines with ~700 MP/s processing bandwidth.
• ~2400 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in a PCIe 3.x system.
• ~1600 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in a PCIe 2.x system.
• ~800 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in a PCIe 1.x system.
• Capture videos up to 4096 x 2160, frame rates up to 240 fps.
• Note that actual capture frame rate can be limited by the PCIe bandwidth and internal working frequency.

Output Features

• Outputs NV12/I420/YUYV/UYVY/RGB24/RGB32 video.
• Supports custom output formats using Magewell Capture SD.
• Supports custom EDID, up/down scaling, de-interlacing, color space conversion, and frame rate conversion.
• Multiple capture streams, unlimited capture streams for any one input channel.
• Supports timestamp and A/V synchronization.
• Hardware based 100ns high-resolution clock.
• Audio frames (192 audio samples) and video frames are stamped with hardware clock.
• Hardware clock can be synchronized across cards (via SDK).
• Supports extraction of SMPTE timecode using SDK.
• Supports extracting ANC metadata for custom DID/SDID support firmware upgrade.

SDI Inputs

• The SDI inputs support up to DCI 4K60, 1080p120, and 720p120 video resolutions.
• Supports video scaling, de-interlacing, color format conversion, and frame rate conversion.
• Video is input with up to 10-bit 4:2:2 color.
• A 100ns high-resolution clock is based on hardware implementation.
• Hardware clock synchronization across cards is available via an SDK.

SDK and APIs

• The MWCapture SDK provides functions including signal status extraction, capture configuration, real-time audio and video capture, and more.
• Supports Windows DirectShow, DirectKS, Wave API, DirectSound, and WASAPI.
• Supports Linux V4L2 and ALSA.

Supported OS

• Windows 10/11/Server 2016 (x86 and x64) and above.
• Linux (x86, x64 and ARM architecture).

Supported Software

• VLC
• VirtualDub
• OBS
• XSplit
• vMix
• VidBlaster
• Wirecast
• Microsoft Media Encoder
• Adobe Flash Media Encoder
• Any other DirectShow/V4L2/AVCaptureSession based encoding or streaming software.