Mike Woodworth
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We actually don’t use the GPU for much math, only for compositing the window and doing styling on the traces and such. The speed is possible because of a custom video pipeline we wrote called AKE – the Adaptive Kernel Engine. It’s kind of like OpenCl/ CUDA but it runs on the CPU.
What this means is that any modern GPU will be fine for ScopeBox, including any shipping laptop. That said, if you are doing big enough frame sizes/ enough palettes/ 10bit sources etc, it’s possible you’ll stress a laptop enough to kick the fans on. Where that threshold is will depend on all of the above variables. All I can say from our testing in house is that the bigger laptops (15-17in) seem to run much cooler under load (and spin up the fans less often) than the small macbook airs.
A great option for cheap configs which will run quietly are the mac minis with a thunderbolt device. We’ve tested all the shipping minis with the BMD UltraStudio3D, and they ran great.
mike
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Mike Woodworth
CEO and Lead Developer
divergent media, inc.
email : mike@divergentmedia.com
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Hey Robert,
Just wanted to correct your last post a bit. Just because ScopeBox has done DV/HDV support better than other tools never meant it was our primary focus. From the beginning we’ve supported all the major 3rd party capture devices. In 3.0 we’ve only increased our focus on third party cards. Blackmagic support is now handled natively — we support their devices through their custom SDK, not quicktime (this is only an option on intel machines, and on PPC we will fall back to quicktime for BMD support).
Also in 3.0 we are supporting RGB and YUV 10bit natively and frame sizes to 4k and beyond. We may be cheaper than other options, but I assure you we are not focused down market.
If anyone is having problems scoping a signal they are able to capture with their card, most likely it is a configuration issue. Please contact our support at support@divergentmedia.com for help working through any issues.
mike
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Mike Woodworth
CEO and Lead Developerdivergent media, inc.
email : mike@divergentmedia.com
web : https://www.divergentmedia.com