NCast Digitizer Capture Card v3.0 - Manual (Page 4)

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Video Capture
The DCC-3 provides full frame-rate signals from S-Video, Composite and DVI inputs, at
both PAL and NTSC resolutions. Odd and even frames are combined during capture, and
de-interlacing is implemented in the driver code.
3. Specification
Physical
Half-Size PCI Card
One female DVI-analog connector
One female High Density 15 pin VGA connector
One Composite BNC video connector
Optional S-Video connector (different bracket)
Pixel Rate 165 MHz
Graphics Sampling 24 bits per pixel/8-8-8 format
Input Resolutions Supported 640x350 up to 1920x1200
Output Resolutions
(supported by hardware)
640x350 up to 1600x1200
Frame Rate Up to 30 fps. SXGA, 18 fps. UXGA
Operating Systems Windows 2000/XP, Linux
Horizontal Frequency 105 kHz
Storage Memory 2x1 mega pixels in double buffered acquisition mode
Temperature 0 to 35 deg. C.
Humidity 5% to 90% non-condensing
Application Software Windows Media Encoder, Real Producer, Windows
Movie Maker, Windows Messenger, and MSN
Messenger. Installer, Windows Driver, API, software
development kit, and sample applications.
4. Software Overview
Windows Driver
The DCC-3 can be installed by downloading the Digitizer Capture Card v 3.0 Drivers
from the NCast website at
http://www.ncast.com/downloads.html . Once the driver has
been downloaded, double click on the .zip icon and follow the installation instructions as
outlined later in this section.
The Windows Driver offers the most important functionality to the user applications.
The driver enables the card to be compatible with the Windows 2000 Kernel Streaming