Acquisition

• Video standards: color (PAL, NTSC), monochrome (CCIR, EIA)
  
  
• Image size
  - 4 CIF: 704 x 480 NTSC / EIA, 704 x 576 PAL / CCIR
  - 2 CIF, CIF and QCIF
  
  
• Wide range of cards for up to 16 real-time cameras
  
  
• Independently programmable frame rate and acquisition parameters
  for each video input
  
  - Contrast, brightness and saturation controls available
  - Video presence and video standard detection
  - Overlay caption text up to 2 lines of maximum 47 characters displayed as small rectangles on 4 pre-defined positions (corners) or anywhere in the active area (custom)
  - Privacy masking regions up to 4 rectangular regions can be masked and colored in black
  
  
• Precise hardware-controlled time stamping
  
  
• One selected video output with cascade capability

  
  On-Board Compression

• H.264 real-time compression on each video input
  - H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) Baseline Profile (Level 3)
  - High image quality on top of low bit rate and low storage requirement

  
  Output Streams

• Two independent and simultaneous output streams for each video channel*
  - One uncompressed stream
  For immediate display of the camera signal
  For the application of real-time video analytic
  
  - One H.264 compressed streams
  For high-quality recording on hard disks

  
  Audio

• Up to 16 line-level audio inputs
  - Audio-video synchronization supported by an accurate hardware time stamping of audio and video data

  
  Software

• DirectShow Drivers for Windows® (32-bit and 64-bit)
  Kernel streaming mini driver providing following filters: Board, Visual Source, Watchdog, Audio Source,
  Pass-Through Selector, Input Line, Output Line
  
  
• Virtual File System Drivers for Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) with XML-based parameterization

  
  Bus Mastering

All Euresys cards are PCI bus mastering agents that directly store the acquired images into the PC physical memory without CPU involvement. The Euresys capture cards automatically recover the scatter-gather virtual memory mapping to present the data as a regular bitmap image in a user allocated memory buffer.

Picolo H.264 Comparison Chart

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