The Osprey�-2000M acts as both and encoder and decoder for high-quality MPEG1 and MPEG2 video.  There are three members of the Osprey�-2000M product family:

• Osprey�-2000M for analog video and audio
• Osprey�-2000M/Pro with analog and professional digital video and audio
• Osprey�-2000M/DVPro with all of the Osprey�-2000M/Pro features plus DV input and decode, enabling DV to MPEG transcoder capability

This card enables developers to take flight with professional quality MPEG applications.  it opens up a new world of MPEG application possibilities, including enterprise streaming video for training, news and corporate communication; telemedicine; and distance learning.  It even offers a low=latency mode for high-quality video conferencing.

Independent Operating Modes

Three devices in one!

Preview

Without using MPEG features, video and audio can be captured, viewed and listened to in real time.  In this mode, video is displayed on the computer monitor and audio is directed to the audio out connectors.  The audio is fed to speakers or looped back into a sound card.

Encode 

Encoding of your video source can be turned on without disturbing the previewing process.  Or, you can capture and encode from one set of audio and video sources while previewing another.  While encoding, the compressed MPEG data is moved to the host in the background and can be stored on disk, streamed over a network, or passed to another application.  Encoding does not require preview the audio and video material, enabling timed recording like those performed with a traditional VCR.

Decode

Decoding can be done at any time, independent of the preview and encode operations.  Preview of video and audio can be switched from live sources to the decoded source.

Product Specifications

Audio and Video Specifications

Compression Formats

• MPEG1 hardware encoder/decoder
• MPEG2 hardware encoder/decoder
• MPEG1 hardware Layer II audio encoder/decoder

Video Input

• Composite and S-Video input
• SDI (Osprey-2000M/Pro)
• DV via IEEE-1394 (Osprey-2000M/DVPro)
• PAL and NTSC

Video Output

• Composite and S-Video output
• SDI (Osprey-2000M/Pro)

Audio Input

• Microphone and line-level audio input
• Balanced stereo (Osprey�-2000M/Pro)
• Professional digital Audio (Osprey�-2000M/Pro)

Audio Output

• Line-level audio output
• Professional digital audio (Osprey�-2000M/Pro)
• SP/DIF digital audio (Osprey�-2000M/Pro)

Platform Support

• Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0
• Solaris 
• Linux

Application Programming Interfaces

• Osprey Programming Interface (OPI)
• DirectShow Filter
• Java Media Framework (JMF)
• MVCast (Vision Tech)

Hardware/System Specifications

• 32-bit/5-volt PCI card
• Full PCI Revision 2.1 compliance

Osprey�-2000M

• Two video inputs 
  • NTSC and PAL
  • Composite and S-video
• Microphone and line-level audio input
• Composite/S-Video and line-level output for MPEG decode

Osprey�-2000M/Pro (same as 2000M plus the following)

• SDI (SMPTE-259M)
• Balanced stereo (SLR connectors)
• Professional digital audio AES/EBU (XLR connector)

Osprey�-2000M/DVPro (same as 2000M/Pro plus the following)

• DV input (via IEE-1394 connector)

Please download the product data sheet about our new Osprey-2000M MPEG video and audio codec card.