Magewell Expands Eco Capture Family of Ultra-Compact, Power-Efficient M.2 Capture Cards

[TheLostSwede]

Magewell has unveiled a new model in its Eco Capture family of ultra-compact, power-efficient, M.2 video capture cards. The new single-channel Eco Capture AIO M.2 provides both HDMI and SDI interfaces with embedded audio support for flexible input connectivity. Magewell will highlight the Eco Capture AIO M.2 and other new innovations in booth C5031 at the 2023 NAB Show in Las Vegas from April 16 to 19.

Magewell's Eco Capture cards offer systems integrators and OEM developers a high-performance video capture solution with low power consumption in a space-efficient form factor. The cost-effective, low-latency devices feature a high-speed PCIe 2.0 bus interface with an M.2 connector and measure just 22x80mm (0.87x3.15 in), making them ideal for incorporation into small, portable or embedded systems where full-sized PCIe slots are not available.




The new Eco Capture AIO M.2 can capture one channel of video up to 2048x1080 at 60 frames per second over either its HDMI input or its 3G-SDI interface, with up to eight channels of embedded audio. The SDI interface's BNC connection can also be configured to accept a standard-definition composite analog video signal for compatibility with legacy source equipment.

The new offering joins five existing Eco Capture M.2 cards including single-input (HDMI or SDI) 4K models; dual-channel models that capture HD and 2K video over HDMI or SDI; and a quad-channel HD/2K model with SDI inputs.

"Our Eco Capture family continues to be extremely popular for enabling robust, reliable video capture in space-constrained applications," said James Liu, VP of Engineering at Magewell. "We expect the new Eco Capture AIO M.2 to be particularly interesting to OEM partners and third-party solution developers who need a compact, power-efficient capture card and want to offer their end-customers a flexible choice of input connectivity."

Eco Capture cards are compatible with Windows and Linux operating systems and support OS-native APIs including DirectShow, DirectKS, V4L2 and ALSA. FPGA-based video processing provides high-quality up/down/cross-scaling, picture controls, and color space conversion without tasking the host system CPU. A comprehensive SDK is also available, enabling developers to directly access the full feature set of the cards.

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[AnarchoPrimitiv]

When you look at their website, it looks as though every product is 10+ years old...PCIe 2.0?

 

[WhitetailAni]

When you look at their website, it looks as though every product is 10+ years old...PCIe 2.0?

If you don't need the faster bandwidth, why spend more on it?

 

[kinjx11]

Oh Magewell when will you be up-to date, i emailed them like 4 years ago about having HDR capture and damn capture software of their own but they won't

 

[trsttte]

If you don't need the faster bandwidth, why spend more on it?

You do need it though. 1080p at 60fps, 8bit is 3.2gbit (dci 2k will be slightly more but ballpark the same). SDI-3g is also, as the name implies, 3gbit. PCIe 2.0 x4 is only able to pass 2gbit so no uncompressed capture I guess

Oh Magewell when will you be up-to date, i emailed them like 4 years ago about having HDR capture and damn capture software of their own but they won't

I'd consider not having their own capture software an advantage, I hate the blackmagic dedicated and buggy apps (i know i can still use obs for example but it's still pretty messy needing the dedicated app to configure stuff), just support open stuff that's already out there and stable and don't reinvent the wheel

 

[Lianna]

You do need it though. 1080p at 60fps, 8bit is 3.2gbit (dci 2k will be slightly more but ballpark the same). SDI-3g is also, as the name implies, 3gbit. PCIe 2.0 x4 is only able to pass 2gbit so no uncompressed capture I guess

No, you don't.
1920x1080 x 24b * 60fps = ~2,99 Gb/s = ~373 MB/s (in powers of ten). PCIe 2.0 x4 is "up to" 2 GB/s (same).
Even 4K/UHD is possible, and from the above press release it seems they have one such card.
10b RGB at 4K is a stretch, possible but may be a tight squeeze due to overhead.

 

[trsttte]

No, you don't.
1920x1080 x 24b * 60fps = ~2,99 Gb/s = ~373 MB/s (in powers of ten). PCIe 2.0 x4 is "up to" 2 GB/s (same).
Even 4K/UHD is possible, and from the above press release it seems they have one such card.
10b RGB at 4K is a stretch, possible but may be a tight squeeze due to overhead.

Oh snap, you're right, it seems I confused the B's with the b's in pcie throughput. Even 4k 10bit would be just under the wire at 1.96GB vs the 2GB from pcie (maybe too close for confort as you mention)