New System specs for PCI Express?

[Sun Da qing]

Do you support pci express with decklink?
We need decklink support pci-e.

[George Loch]

https://www.blackmagic-design.com/press/detail.asp?pressID=66

“Blackmagic Design introduces world’s first PCI Express capture card

IBC 2005, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – 9th September 2005 – Today Blackmagic Design announced the world’s first PCI Express (PCIe) based capture card with 10 bit SDI and high quality analog component/composite video connections for high end editing, broadcast paint, and effects called DeckLink Extreme PCIe.”

And for the original poster, it require a single PCIe lane so, you won’t have to use one of your precious 16x lanes for it.

BMD is just on top of things. Kudos!

-gl

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Shane,

Good question and I have just added Certified PCIe Systems for Standard Definition only to the support note DeckLink Minimum System Requirements for Windows

[Luke Maslen]

Hi,

Yes, we have just released the DeckLink Extreme PCIe card at IBC 2005 and first shipments will be in about two weeks.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Richard Scobie]

Hi Luke,

Do you know if any testing was done with single core Athlon64?

I ask as I am successfully using a single 3GHz P4 on the Supermicro P4SCT and would have thought that a fast Athlon64 single core on the Asus A8N-E would have done likewise.

If so it would mean a competent SD system could be assembled for really not much money.

Regards,

Richard

[Shane Chadder]

Found it. Thanks.

BTW thanks also for fixing the DV field issues in 5.1.2.

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Richard,

Single Core Athlon64’s have not been tested. What we have tested is listed in the support note DeckLink Minimum System Requirements for Windows.

The dual core systems are already inexpensive and Matt might be able to comment on the Single Core Athlon64’s when he returns from IBC.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Shane,

I’m very pleased to hear that you are no longer seeing DV field issues in 5.1.2. I will certainly pass on your thanks to the relevant engineers 🙂

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Sun Da qing]

Dou you have pci-e decklink card without analog io.
we only use digital io.Extreme’s cable is cumbrous.
Will you change decklink sd with pci to decklink sd with pcie?

[Luke Maslen]

Hi,

The DeckLink Extreme PCIe is the first capture card for PCIe. We are mainly concentrating on the new Multibridge Extreme and Studio as they use PCIe and replace the need for a capture card because the are a capture and convertor system all in one. So I don’t know if and when we will be transitioning other DeckLink models to PCIe. The decision would be based upon customer demand.

Many new PC’s have both PCI or PCI-X and PCIe slots so there might or might not be much customer demand to convert the other DeckLink cards to PCIe. The DeckLink Extreme was the logical card to convert to PCIe as it does everything digital and analog in and out. If there is enough demand to convert other models of DeckLink cards, then that is something we can consider in the future but we’ll have to wait and see.

One thing that might be slowing the transition to PCIe at the moment is the lack of HBA’s for PCIe, ie SCSI, Fibre Channel and SATA cards. Fortunately many of the inexpensive Dual Core PC’s have SATA on board which means you can connect up to 4 SATA drives internally to make a great disk array for SD video. The move to HD video will be accelerated once there are HBA cards available for PCIe.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design