Analog PCI Express® power

The Osprey 240e professional analog video capture card, featuring legendary Osprey quality for the latest PC architectures. It's designed especially for the super high-speed PCI Express® (PCIe) bus.

Optimized for the Latest PC architectures

PC manufacturers have adopted the PCIe bus as the latest high-throughput internal bus architecture. The best PC graphics cards use this bus because it unleashes the power of modern multi-core PC engines with unfettered access to all PC resources. This type of power can support multiple Osprey PCIe cards in one system.

Key Attributes:

• Hardware audio gain control
• Closed-caption extraction
• Hardware cropping and bitmap overlay
• Audio loop-back for monitoring
• Available with factory-enabled SimulStream
• SimulStream must be enabled at the factory at the time of purchase and is not a field upgradable option.
• Customized messaging superimposed on color bars upon loss of video signal
• Supports Wide Screen Signaling (WSS) flag for automatic 16 x 9 capture
• Install multiple cards per chassis, or mix-and-match with other Osprey cards
• Works with popular video encoding applications
• Includes drivers for Microsoft® Windows® XP, Server 2003, Server 2008, Vista and Windows 7; check the ViewCast Web site for available drivers

The Osprey 240e will be manufacturer discontinued as of January 31, 2011. Orders for the Osprey 240e will be accepted up to May 31, 2011 with a last shipment date of August 31, 2011.The Osprey 240e will be EOL on August 31, 2011.

Suggested replacement products are the Osprey 260e and Osprey 460e. General availability of the Osprey 460e is expected on May 31, 2011 and the Osprey 260e is expected on July 31, 2011.

Driver Support:

• Microsoft® DirectShow® API

Inputs:

Video:
One channel switchable input:
• Composite (BNC x 1)
• Y/C (BNX x 2) (Includes BNC to mini-DIN adapter)
• Components (BNC x 3)

Audio:

• Balanced stereo (XLR x 2)
• Unbalanced stereo (RCA x 2)

Outputs:

Audio:

• Unbalanced stereo line (3.5 mm)

Video Format:

• NTSC/PAL

Connectivity:

Pre-Processing:

• Closed-caption extraction/rendering
• Logo/bitmap overlay
• Scaling, cropping, de-interlacing and inverse telecine
• Loss of video automatic test pattern generation with text overlay option

Dimensions:

• Half-height / half-length board
• 6.60" L x 2.71"H (16.77 cm L x 6.89 cm H)
• Includes low-profile bracket

Hardware Warranty:

• 1 year limited hardware warranty

System Requirements:

• Video capture requires intense bandwidth across the system bus, CPU, and memory. Use of DDR3 and PCI express version 2.0 motherboard components are highly recommended.
• Multi-core processsors are recommended to run video applications.