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News Release from: Wordsworth Technology | Subject: IVC-4200
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 September 2004
Video capture card goes on the record
The IVC-4200 four-channel MPGE4 video capture card is an ideal solution for the easy development of digital video recorder solutions.
The IVC-4200 four-channel MPGE4 video capture card is an ideal solution for the easy development of digital video recorder solutions The encoder hardware provides real-time VGA quality video capture for each channel
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The IVC-4200 is a PCI card with 16Mbyte of SDRAM and is PCI V2.1 compliant, supporting plug and play.
The composite video input is via four BNC connectors and auto-senses NTSC, Pal and Secam formats.
A range of output image file formats are supported including MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, Microsoft WMV, Sigma Design MPEG4 and H.263.
In the output stream a Pal frame rate of 25frame/s is available for each channel with resolutions of 720 x 576, 360 x 288, and 180 x 144.
(For NTSC the frame rate is 30frame/s, and the available resolutions are 720 x 480, 360 x 240 and 180 x 120).
Hardware control is provided for brightness, contrast and saturation.
The video performance supports DVD quality full D1 video at 3-16Mbit/s, high quality CIF video at 384Kbit/s, high quality QCIF video at 96Kbit/s, and high quality full D1 video at 1Mbit/s.
"We are delighted to be able to offer the IVC-4200 MPEG4 video capture card for DVR and streaming software applications", said Nick Coxhead, Technical Director at Wordsworth Technology.
"Developers have access to preview/recording software and a software development kit".
"The bitrate can be adjusted from 50Kbit/s to 3Mbit/s enabling the perfect balance between image file size and quality", he continued.
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