Digital Rapids - Hardware Encoder Card | Video Capture, Encoding & Streaming PCI Cards

• standard feature o optional feature

Inputs and Encoding Channels	2600	2000	1600	1400	500
Video encoding channels (simultaneous inputs)	2	2	1	1	1
Audio processing channels	4 stereo	4 stereo	4 stereo	4 stereo	2 stereo
Composite inputs	4 BNC¹	4 BNC	4 BNC¹	4 BNC¹	1 RCA
Y/C (S-Video) inputs	2¹	2	2¹	2¹	1
Component inputs (3 BNC)	2¹	2	2¹	2¹	none
SDI (inc. embedded audio)	2	none	1	1	none
DV via host system IEEE-1394 port²	1	none	1	none	none
Balanced audio (XLR)	4¹	4	4¹	4¹	4
Unbalanced audio (RCA)	4¹	4	4¹	4¹	2
AES/EBU audio (XLR)	2 stereo¹	none	2 stereo¹	2 stereo¹	none
VBI capture with Closed Caption support	•	•	•	•

Connections, Input Format Support	DRC-Stream
Video/audio input connectivity	DRC-Stream 500: Direct video and unbalanced audio connectivity; balanced audio through included breakout cable DRC-Stream 2000: Breakout cable standard, 1RU breakout box optional DRC-Stream 1400/1600/2600: SDI connectivity standard; breakout cable or 1RU breakout box optional
Input video frame formats	480i @ 59.94Hz (NTSC), 576i @ 50Hz (PAL)
Audio support	48kHz/24-bit audio processing (16-bit capture)
General Features	DRC-Stream
Capture/encode to files from live inputs or decks (w/o deck control)	•
Capture/encode to files from deck with RS-422 control	o
Transcode from source media files	•
Live streaming	•
Archive to files during live streaming	•
Hardware Processing (SDI, AES and analog inputs)	DRC-Stream
Video pre-processing (motion adaptive de-interlacing, 2D & 3D noise reduction, aspect ratio conversion, cropping, scaling, filtering, proc amp controls, gamma correction)	•
Audio pre-processing (7-band parametric EQ per channel, dynamic range compression/ expansion, bass/treble, sample rate conversion, volume)	•
Graphic overlay	•
Stream LE software features	DRC-Stream
Easy-to-use interface with single-click encoding	•
Simultaneous output to multiple codecs, resolutions and bitrates	•
Encoding formats (codecs and containers) Click here for more details of standard and optional formats.	Standard: VC-1 (Microsoft Silverlight incl. IIS Smooth Streaming; Windows Media WMV), QuickTime, AVI, RealVideo and more. (Apple ProRes import available with third-party QuickTime filters). Optional: AVC (H.264, MPEG-4 Part 10), MPEG-2, MPEG-1, H.264 for Web (Adobe® Flash® incl. Dynamic Streaming; Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming), On2 VP6, Dolby® Digital and Digital Plus, Dolby Pulse (AAC), JPEG2000, iPhone® H.264 with integrated segmenting, Avid DNxHD®, 3GPP, MXF, GXF, LXF, DVCPro, XDCAM HD, RED (import only) and more.
Interactive control of hardware preprocessing capabilities	•
Programmable event triggers (GPI , duration, custom keys)	•
Integration with Digital Rapids Transcode Manager (sold separately)	•
Optional Stream FE software upgrade	DRC-Stream
RS-422 deck control for batch capture and logging	o
Batch Encoding (real-time capture with auto transcode)	o
Video and audio processing plug-ins (graphic and video overlay, adaptive inverse telecine, color space conversion, open captioning, audio track mix-down and more) with support for third-party DirectShow and DMO plug-ins	o
E-mail notifications and automated FTP distribution	o
Watch Folder support and batch Clip Lists for media file transcoding	o
Batch Encoding (real-time capture with auto transcode)	o
Direct DVD publishing	o
Integration with Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager (sold separately)	o

1. Optional breakout cable or breakout box required for analog and AES/EBU inputs with DRC-Stream 1400/1600/2600 (SDI connectivity standard)
2. Hardware-based pre-processing not available on host-based inputs

Specifications