[AG-TECH] AG3.2 Bundle - Blackmagic Card Support

Todd Zimmerman todd.zimmerman at ubc.ca
Fri Sep 24 11:24:09 CDT 2010


Genius!

Works like a charm - thanks for all your hard work.

Todd




On 09/23/2010 06:41 PM, Douglas Kosovic wrote:
> I meant select HDMI and 1080i59.9 or whatever the input port and signals
> are in the HD node service configuration, rather than in VIC.
>
> The Blackmagic DirectShow device which doesn't have 'Blackmagic-" as the
> prefix in the device name won't work as the only signals listed are PAL
> and NTSC, so gets limited to those resolutions and thus has a black
> screen. There was little point in getting VIC's DirectShow grabber to
> work as it was up to 5 fps slower with 1080i59.95, plus the Blackmagic
> DirectShow filter API was going to be changed with a newer SDK.
>
>
> Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ag-tech-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov
> [mailto:ag-tech-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Douglas Kosovic
> Sent: Friday, 24 September 2010 9:30 AM
> To: Todd Zimmerman; ag-tech at lists.mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] AG3.2 Bundle - Blackmagic Card Support
>
> Hi Todd,
>
>
> Use VIC's native DeckLink grabber which has "Blackmagic-" as the prefix
> in the name of the device e.g. "Blackmagic-Decklink Studio 2". In VIC
> select 1080i59.98 and HDMI or whatever the input port and signals are.
> 	
> You need to have the Blackmagic 7.8 driver or later driver installed,
> otherwise the Signal and Port selection may not be possible and all the
> codecs will be greyed out.
>
> VIC's native DeckLink grabber has scaling support, port and signal
> selection and handles dropping frames if encoding can't keep up better.
>
>
> Doug
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ag-tech-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov [mailto:ag-tech-
>> bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Todd Zimmerman
>> Sent: Friday, 24 September 2010 2:52 AM
>> To: ag-tech at lists.mcs.anl.gov
>> Subject: [AG-TECH] AG3.2 Bundle - Blackmagic Card Support
>>
>>    Hey All,
>>
>> I'm trying to get my Blackmagic card working using the just released
>> AG3.2 bundle.
>>
>> Vic version: vic-2.8ucl1.4.0beta (GPL)
>>
>> I'm using a Blackmagic Decklink Studio.
>>
>> When I add start a VideoServiceHD, I am not getting video.  Here is
> the
>> behavior:
>>
>> If I select  "Decklink Video Capture" for device (port external-in,
> Signal NTSC)
>> and any of h261as, mpeg4 or h264, I get a black screen (which is
>> promising....).  h261 is grayed out, but if I set h.261 in the Service
>> Configuration in AG, it will select it, but I get a vic error "can't
> read "encoder":
>> no such variable"
>>
>> This is also the error I get if changing the device to "Blackmagic
> Decklink
>> Studio 2"
>>
>> Note the 'Blackmagic Decklink-Grabber section with 'Software Scaling'
> in the
>> vic settings menu only appears if I select "Blackmagic Decklink Studio
> 2" as
>> the device.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Todd
>


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