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Decklink HD Plus/HDLink – I got nuthin’
I am trying to get up and running with a Decklink HD Plus card feeding an HDLink converter on a Mac G5 with a 23″ Cinema Display. I have no signal to my 23″ Cinema Display. The HD Plus card is in slot 4. I’m attempting to switch over to FCP from AVID Xpress Pro with MOJO (the MOJO is not plugged intoi the system). I put a brand new ATA additional drive in the computer, installed Tiger 10.4.2, FCP 5.0.2, and the latest Decklink drivers. I am booting up from this new drive, though the old one is also on my desktop.
I have a Mac G5 Dual 2 GHZ w/2.5 GB Ram. I can’t get the computer desktop to show up. I have set the Blackmagic Ddecklink sustem preference to “enable after restart” and rebooted multiple times. I have the “Black Video Output to Deck Capture” disabled, as I imagine all I would see on my monitor at that point is black.
I have spoken with BM support – he was supportive and helpful, but so far no luck. As I said before, I have switched out for another card – same result.
So … do i have some kind of software conflict? I tried to avoid this by installing the new ATA disk — but could the AVID software still be a problem, even though it is on an other disk? Any other known software conflicts that fight with teh Decklink card? I’m running out of ideas.
Thanks!
Wynn Winberg
Aries ProductionsP.S. – When I go to “About this Mac” and check out slot 4, it says “pci-bridge”:
Type: pci
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-4
Vendor ID: 0x3388
Device ID: 0xa105
Revision ID: 0x0002Is that what you guys get?
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5 Replies
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Hi There,
it looks like you have the New G5 Dual 2GHz with PCI slots as opposed to The old Model Which Had PCI-X.
If this is the case then you’ll have no luck with the decklink cards, they do required G5 PCI-X computers
to Work.Just to make sure has your computer got 8 or 4 Ram slots?
Regards
Olivier Jean
Powermedia Systems
Sydney Australia -
What you get in “About this mac” is right
also you should get SD signal out – make sure that you apple display is swiched on – the switch might be bit tricky – that was my case (I know, sounds REALLY stupido)-Kaspar
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Hi Wynn,
I think Olivier’s suggestion is probably the reason for your problem, ie the current generation of G5/2.0 have a problem with their PCI slots which means they cannot play out video to any monitor or deck with a DeckLink card. Please review the technical note No video output from PowerMac G5 (PCI) and see if this explains your problem. If not, please let me know and we’ll try to work out where your problem might lie. I do not believe your previous system is causing a problem as it was DV and Firewire-based and should not interfere with uncompressed video via SDI.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design -
OK, I’ll check my machine out and see if I see PCI-X.
The HDLink problem was a PHYSICAL one, as one of the pins on the montor’s DVI connector had bent when it was plugged into the DHLINK plug. I finally thought to look at that possibility after I ran an SD SDI signal directly from from the HDPlus into a video monitor and it worked.
So now I get an output to my Cinema Display– but when I go to 1080i it won’t go any faster then 30HZ. I need it to go 60HZ – yes? What do you suppose is preventing that from happening?
Thanks for your help –
Wynn
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Hi Wynn,
[Wynn Winberg] “when I go to 1080i it won’t go any faster then 30HZ. I need it to go 60HZ – yes? What do you suppose is preventing that from happening?”
Please provide some details of what you are doing on the Mac to output a frame rate higher than 30 Hz and what you see that leads you to believe that it won’t go any faster then 30Hz.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design
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