Document Outline

• Thank you for choosing Epiphan!
• Specifications
• Warranty
• Technical Support
• Environmental Information
• Table of Contents
• 1. Introduction
  • Comparing Epiphan Frame Grabbers
  • About this Document
• 2. System Requirements
  • Hardware Requirements
  • Video capture workstation
  • Software Requirements
• 3. Installing the Windows VGA2USB/DVI2USB drivers and application
• 4. Installing the Mac OS X VGA2USB/DVI2USB drivers and application
• 5. Connecting a VGA2USB Device
• 6. Connecting a DVI2USB Device
• 7. Connecting a DVI2USB Solo Device
• 8. Connecting a DVI2USB Duo Device
• 9. Connecting a KVM2USB Device
• 10. Troubleshooting
• 11. About Epiphan frame grabbing technology
  • The VGA or DVI video source
  • The Frame Grabber
    • How Epiphan Frame Grabbers operate
  • The video capture workstation
    • About kernel mode and user mode
    • Windows video capture application software
      • The Epiphan USB device driver
      • DirectShow
      • The Epiphan capture API
      • The Epiphan video capture application
      • Video codecs
    • Mac OS X video capture workstation software
      • The Epiphan USB device driver
      • The Epiphan capture API
      • Apple QuickTime and the Epiphan QuickTime component
      • The Epiphan video capture application
    • Linux video capture workstation software
      • The Epiphan USB device driver
      • Video4Linux
      • The Epiphan capture API
      • V4L custom video capture applications
  • Glossary of Terms
    • Color depth, bits per pixel (bpp)
    • Capture, image capture, frame grabbing
    • Color resolution
    • DVI
    • Frame Grabber
    • Frame
    • Record
    • VGA
    • VGA modes
    • Video capture application
    • Video capture workstation
• 12. Windows video capture application
  • Upgrading to the latest software version
    • Finding software updates
  • Starting the video capture application
  • Common procedures
    • Pausing, copying, saving, and printing images
    • Recording captured images
    • Starting web broadcasting
  • Menus
    • File menu
    • Edit menu
    • View menu
    • Capture menu
    • Tools menu
    • KVM menu
    • Help menu
  • Toolbar
  • Status bar
  • Shortcut keys
  • Recording, display, KVM and sharing options
    • Configuring recording options
    • Configuring display options
    • About setting the display format
      • Increasing the color depth of captured images
      • Reducing the color depth of captured images
      • Converting color images to grayscale or black and white
  • Windows Epiphan USB device driver
• 13. Mac OS X video capture application
  • Upgrading to the latest Mac OS X software version
    • Finding software updates
  • Starting the Mac OS X video capture application
  • Copying, saving, and printing images
  • Menus
    • VGA2USB menu
    • Video capture application general preferences
    • KVM preferences
    • File menu
    • Edit menu
    • View menu
    • Tools menu
  • Toolbar
  • Changing system preferences
• 14. Recording image files
  • Configuring image file recording options
  • Setting display options to change how image files are recorded
  • Recording image files
  • Viewing saved image files
• 15. Recording videos
  • Recording videos for Windows 2000, XP, or Vista
    • Setting display options for recording videos
    • Selecting a Windows video codec
    • Installing the ffvfw video codec pack
    • Configuring video file recording options
    • Recording a video
    • Playing back a video file
  • Using a DirectShow application to record video files
    • Before you start recording images with VirtualDub
    • Other configuration options
  • Recording videos for Mac OS X
    • Setting QuickTime options for recording videos (Mac OS X)
    • Recording video files (Mac OS X)
    • Playing back a video file (Mac OS X)
  • Recording videos for Linux
    • Recording video files (Linux)
    • Playing back a video file (Linux)
• 16. Web Broadcasting
  • Setting the Display format for web broadcasting
  • Starting a web broadcasting session
  • Viewing a web broadcasting session
  • Changing web broadcasting compression and performance
    • Troubleshooting web broadcasting performance
      • Some examples
      • Improving performance by lowering the frame rate
• 17. Using the KVM2USB Frame Grabber
• 18. Advanced topics
  • About EDID
    • Changing the EDID on your Frame Grabber
    • EDID example
  • Configuring image adjustments
    • Sampling Phase
    • PLL adjustment
    • Horizontal and Vertical Shift
    • Offset and Gain Controls (brightness/contrast)
    • Prefer wide (16:9) VGA modes
    • Resetting image adjustments
  • Configuring DirectShow options
  • Configuring VGA modes
    • Adding custom VGA modes
    • Selecting standard VGA modes
  • Windows command line options
  • About the frame rate
  • Troubleshooting
• Index