HD I/O Board Owner's Guide

Table of Contents

About This Guide

Audience

Structure of This Guide

Related Publications

Conventions Used in This Guide

Product Support

Reader Comments

1. Features and Capabilities

HD I/O Features

HD I/O Panel and Cable

2. Programming the HD I/O Board

VL Basics for the HD I/O Board

HD I/O Controls

Field Dominance

Automatically Correcting for Output Underflow

Capturing Graphics to Video

HD I/O Events

Reporting

Examples

3. Synchronizing Data Streams and Signals

Using UST, MSC, and Buffered Media Streams for Synchronization

Media Library Interfaces for UST and MSC

A. HD I/O Board Specifications

Cable Connectors

GPI Interface

Genlock

B. Setting Up the HD I/O Board for Your Video Hardware

Setting Up Digital Source Video  

Setting Up the Output (Drain)

Setting Up Sync

Saving Settings

C. Pixel Packings and Color Spaces

HD I/O Pixel Packings

Sampling Patterns

D. Programming Methods for Real-Time Digital Media Recording and Playback

Digital Media Buffers

Direct I/O

Multiprocessing

Asynchronous I/O

E. Installing HD I/O Software on a New Disk

Index