Decklink and windows media encoder

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Kevin,

Yes, I checked with one of the engineers and he showed me Windows Media Encoder working with DeckLink cards. You can select DeckLink inputs and outputs. When specifying a video format, make sure it is a standard TV format as non-standard formats will not work with DeckLink cards.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Kevin Christopher]

Perfect!! Prepare to see telecine sessions over the web.

Kevin

[Dangb]

what do you mean you can select outputs?

[Andrew Wong]

Hi Luke,

Just been trying out a BMD Extreme with Windows XP, WM Encoder 9.

The latest drivers from BMD do work and allow me to encode (at best) 25fps with analog, and 22fps with SDI input into a WM stream of 320×240 30fps (target) and an output stream of 320kbps.

Trying to do anything more with the card/drivers results in no video capture, a crash to WM Encoder or a very jerky stream.

This is all done on a P4 3.0Ghz with 512Mb of RAM, Windows XP Pro and a 100Mbit network ( direct to another PC ).

Appreciate some support from BMD to try and figure out if I should really be looking at a more conventional Windows capture card like the Osprey 560 or the Digital Rapids cards.

Thanks,
Andrew Wong

[Thomas345]

Hi to all,

I see the posts are all from last year, but we have still the same problem:

We try to use the Decklink card for encoding a live stream with Windows Media Encoder.

However, we haven’t succeed yet…

Our problem is: the Decklink card appears in WME as Source, you can open the “configure” dialog,
but it obviously doesn’t save the settings there.

We need PAL input, but whenever we reopen the dialog, it again is set to NTSC, 8 bit.

And as a result, we only get the “no input” screen in the encoder.

What is the trick here -would be extremely glad for a hint!!!

thanks

thomas