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Can the heat sink or fan be removed from the capture card?

Except that you have better cooling solutions for chips, it's not recommended to remove the heat sink or fan, which will affect the stability of the capture card. You should pay special attention to heat dissipation when using the mini PCIe cards and M.2 cards. Because those cards are generally used for small case, which is more difficult to dissipate heat compared with the normal case.

How to reduce the power consumption of Pro Capture cards

We use Xilinx chips to achieve better performance, so the power consumption is higher. If you want to reduce power consumption, you can go to Download Center > Product Family, select Pro Capture, and then download and install the low power consumption version firmware. This firmware can be applied to Pro Capture Dual HDMI, Pro Capture Dual SDI, Pro Capture Mini HDMI and Pro Capture Mini SDI. We must remind you that the performance and function of low power consumption firmware are both reduced compared with that of the high performance firmware. Relevant Topic: Differences between the low consumption version and high performance version of Pro Capture Family Firmware

Differences between the low consumption version and high performance version of Pro Capture Family Firmware

The video processing capability of the low consumption firmware is half that of the high performance firmware. For high performance firmware, there are two video processing pipelines with ~ 180 MP/s processing bandwidth for each one. For low consumption firmware, there is only one video processing pipeline with ~ 180 MP/s processing bandwidth. It only supports capturing two video streams (1920x1080 + 960x540) at the same time. The low consumption firmware doesn't support OSD. OSD: Overlay pictures, logos or subtitles on the video. The memory bandwidth of the low consumption firmware decrease to 16 bit.

Are Magewell capture devices hardware compression cards or software compression cards?

Magewell capture devices are software compression cards. What is software compression card? The video is captured by hardware and compressed by software. What is hardware compression card? The video is captured and compressed both by hardware.

For video that has a sync frequency of 15kHz/50Hz and two output sync modes (RGsB and RGBHV), which capture devices support them?

The following capture cards can support the signal: Pro Capture DVI, Pro Capture Dual DVI , Pro Capture AIO USB Capture AIO , USB Capture DVI Plus

How to adjust volume on Windows

Adjust the volume of playback device Right-click the Volume icon in the Windows Taskbar, and then select Playback devices from the context menu to open the Sound dialog box. In the Playback tab page of the Sound dialog box, select the playback device that is related to your capture device and then click Properties. In the Properties dialog box of playback device, enter the Levels tab page and then adjust the volume of playback device. Adjust the volume of recording device In the Recording tab page of the Sound dialog box (which has been mentioned at step 1 in Adjust the volume of playback device), select the recording device that is related to your capture device and then click Properties. In the Properties dialog box of recording device, enter the Levels tab page and then adjust the volume of recording device. If there is any problem with the volume adjustment when you are using Pro Capture Family/Eco Capture Family/First Generation Capture Device, please update the driver to the latest version.

View Magewell capture device on Windows

In Device Manager, expand Sound, video and game controllers, then you will find Magewell capture devices.

Use audio 5.1 or audio 7.1 in Linux

1Install devices Insert the capture card into the motherboard of the computer. Connect the audio and video source to the capture card. Update your driver to the latest version. 2Download SDK Go to Download Center > Capture SDK to download SDK. 3Setup sound track Run the VLC player and select the input signal. Set the sound track of the input signal source to 5.1 or 7.1. Capture and display the video source. 4Check sound track status Open the mwcap-info program in SDK, and run the following command: mwcap-info –info-input-all /dev/video0 In the displayed information, locate Input Audio, and then check whether the multi-track setting takes effect. If audio 5.1 takes effect, the values of channel 1&2, channel 3&4 and channel 5&6 will all be "Valid". If audio 7.1 takes effect, the values of channel 1&2, channel 3&4, channel 5&6 and channel 7&8 will all be "Valid".

Which Linux versions are supported by Pro Capture Family driver?

The Pro Capture Family drivers are based on the x86 and ARM Linux version, supporting Ubuntu x86, ARM TK1 and ARM TX1 systems. If you are willing to sign the NDA agreement with Magewell, you can use the Pro Capture family driver on any Linux distribution.

Use Pro Capture card to capture video at 2560x1440p144

Scenario Some monitors have a resolution and refresh rate of 2560x1440p 144Hz. This article offers gamers who use such monitor a solution for live streaming or recording. Devices A computer for streaming/recording A monitor that supports 2560x1440p 144Hz An EDID bin file that provided by Magewell ( Click here to download) One Pro Capture HDMI 4K Plus, Pro Capture HDMI 4K Plus LT or Pro Capture AIO 4K Plus Solution Ⅰ Hardware requirement: the computer graphics card can at least simultaneously output two channels of HDMI signals 1. Connect devices Connect the capture device with the streaming computer via an USB cable; connect the output of the graphics card with the capture device and monitor respectively via HDMI cables. 2. Set the display properties In the graphics card control panel, set the resolution to 2560x1440 and refresh rate to 144 Hz. 3. Set the display mode of multiple monitors In the system display settings, enable the duplicate/mirror display mode of multiple monitors. The following figures shows the display settings on Windows, MacOS, and Ubuntu respectively. Windows MacOS Ubuntu 4. Configure the capture device Use the drive panel of the capture device to import the EDID provided by Magewell. Relevant Topic: Use the driver panel of capture card to edit EDID Solution Ⅱ Hardware limitation: the computer graphics card can only output one channel of HDMI signals; Pro Capture HDMI 4K Plus LT must be used 1. Connect devices Connect the capture device with the streaming computer via the PCIe interface; connect the output of the graphics card with the input of the capture device via an HDMI cable; connect the LOOP THRU interface of the capture device with the monitor via an HDMI cable. 2. Set the display properties In the graphics card control panel, set the resolution to 2560x1440 and refresh rate to 144 Hz. 3. Configure the capture device Use the drive panel of the capture device to import the EDID provided by Magewell. Relevant Topic: Use the driver panel of capture card to edit EDID