Lowres VGA Signal input

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Lowres VGA Signal input

Postby rubendesnoo » Wed Aug 26, 2015 11:53 am

HI,

I have a project were I need to get a low-resolution analog VGA signal into my pandora's box software.
I have a player standard and my own hardware.

Would a simple TV tuner card be an solution or do I need to have these more expensive datapath/blackmagic (decklink/intensity) cards.
For this project latency and color dept won't be very important.

And, when the TV tuner won't work, would an Blackmagic decklink mini-recorder be better then a blackmagic intensity?
What would be the differance? Will they work both?


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Re: Lowres VGA Signal input

Postby Markus Zeppenfeld » Wed Aug 26, 2015 12:59 pm

Hi Ruben,

will your image be provided as VGA signal or as composite?
Tuner cards mostly do only have a composite input via cinch or similar.

Even when they have a VGA input, you would need to check if they can only read 720x576pixels as this is the PAL resolution.

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Re: Lowres VGA Signal input

Postby rubendesnoo » Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:51 pm

Hi Markus,

The signal is problably rgbhv, because it hs a vga connector.
Resolution pal is fine by me, I'm just wondering if Pandora's box software will recognise these cards?

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Re: Lowres VGA Signal input

Postby Markus Zeppenfeld » Wed Aug 26, 2015 2:18 pm

Hi again,

as long as the input card has a valid DirectShow driver (or video for windows), it will show up as LiveInput as your Webcam does as well.

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