Unigraf UFG-05 1E, User Manual

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Page 2: ...s on the date of issue The authors reserve the rights to make any changes to this product and to revise the information about the products contained in this manual without an obligation to notify any persons about such revisions or changes Edition UFG 05 Series User Manual for Windows Rev 8 Document identifier Date 6 August 2013 Company information Unigraf Oy Piispantilankuja 4 FI 02240 ESPOO Finl...

Page 3: ...be of equivalent or better specifications relative to the defective product but need not to be identical Any product or part repaired by Unigraf pursuant to this warranty shall have a warranty period of not less than 90 days from the date of such repair irrespective of any earlier expiration of original warranty period When Unigraf provides replacement then the defective product becomes the proper...

Page 4: ...15 Adjusting Captured Colors 17 Advanced Controls 18 Check firmware 18 Reset 18 A D Converter Calibration 18 5 Usage 19 Previewing Video 19 Capturing Video 19 Applications and Troubleshooting 20 GraphEdit 20 AmCap 20 Windows Media Encoder 20 VirtualDUB 20 Performance 21 PCI Bus 21 Calculating the Requested Bandwidth 21 Estimating the Bandwidth 21 Frame Locking 22 Other Limitations 22 Appendix A Pr...

Page 5: ...rivers and libraries in a PC Assist the user in configuring the capturing process with the user interface Give instructions for the user how to capture images Product and Driver Version This manual explains features found in product versions UFG 05 4S UFG 05 1E UFG 05 32 UFG 05 Dual 32 UFG 05 Dual 64 and Windows driver version 2 6 Please consult Unigraf for differences or upgrades of previous vers...

Page 6: ...rame locking capture 1 1 1 2 1 3 or 1 4 of original frame rate In Dual models two fully independent capturing channels both of which can be HDMI DVI RGB Component or Composite video 64 and 32 bit AVStream drivers x64 WOW64 X86 that are compatible with DirectShow compatible applications like Media Encoder VLC and VirtualDub Supports Microsoft 8 32 and 64 bit Microsoft 7 32 and 64 bit Microsoft XP 3...

Page 7: ...rself You can do the grounding by wearing a special grounding strap or simply touching a grounded metal surface Driver Type Selection The UFG 05 family supports Microsoft 8 32 and 64 bit Microsoft 7 32 and 64 bit Windows XP 32 bit and Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit operating systems The Installation CD includes three alternative drivers WOW64 drivers 64 bit operating system and 32 bit applications x6...

Page 8: ...leges are required for performing the installation The Plug and Play subsystem will detect the newly installed UFG 05 family board In the Welcome to the New Hardware Wizard click Cancel Please use the install exe routine for pre installation before the actual Windows installation Open the folder containing the requested driver type included in the UFG 05 family Installation CD Run install exe appl...

Page 9: ... of e g AmCap tool Select FG Properties tab For verifying the firmware programmed on the UFG 05 unit please click Check Firmware in the Advanced section of the dialog Open the FG Properties tab and click Check Firmware If firmware is OK Press No If firmware does not match to the driver press Yes Please note that the firmware update will take about three minutes After the update is completed please...

Page 10: ...ease find below the description each section Input Source Type You can select one of the three input types Analog Digital and Video with the radio buttons in the Input Source Type section In addition to that within each input type you can define sub types For Analog and Digital you can select either RGB or YPbPr YCbCr For Video you can select the four combinations between S Video and Composite and...

Page 11: ...utton The full detection measures the horizontal and vertical frequencies to find the matching timing and in the end finds the positioning of the image You can perform only the positioning of the image based on the picture data by clicking the Adjust button The positioning adjusts the image boundaries and the horizontal total and pixel frequency values It also adjusts the sampling phase The positi...

Page 12: ...ze of the captured bitmap VRes Vertical size of the captured bitmap HStart Horizontal start horizontal sync horizontal back porch VStart Vertical start vertical sync vertical back porch HTotal Horizontal total VTotal Vertical total Phase Adjust the A D conversion sampling phase to align with the centre of the pixel of the incoming video Please click the Apply button after updating the fields ...

Page 13: ...lds Digital sources are set up automatically and they do not need any detection or calibration procedure HRes horizontal size of the captured bitmap VRes vertical size of the captured bitmap Both for Analog and Digital inputs you can select the color mode as a Sub type The alternatives are RGB and Comp Video YPbPr YCbCr ...

Page 14: ...frame grabber board On the Sub Type selection you can select between the input type and the video type The selections are Composite NTSC Composite PAL Composite SECAM S Video NTSC S Video PAL and S Video SECAM The Input Timing section shows the detected source timing Please note that this is NOT the selection that the user did in the Sub Type above ...

Page 15: ...r saving the PCI bus bandwidth and PC resources You can frame lock to every 2nd 3rd or 4th frame of the original video input to save PCI bus bandwidth and ensure a smooth video stream output You can limit the captured frame rate to an arbitrary fps value You can control the image orientation when stored in the PC You can enable the hardware scaling by selecting the Override Resolution check box an...

Page 16: ... operate for progressive and interlaced sources with 60 Hz and 50 Hz vertical frequencies and field frequencies respectively Note You will need over 20 fps capture speed for acceptable quality of moving objects Please lock 60 Hz input video to 30 fps SRC 2 or 20 fps FPS SRC 3 and 50 Hz input video to 25 fps SRC 2 You can have the UFG 05 output the captured bitmap flipped around vertically by selec...

Page 17: ...justing the color information Brightness Contrast Hue and Saturation have unique values for all three input types The values are stored and re loaded when the corresponding input is selected The Reset button sets the factory default values In most cases these values give an optimum result ...

Page 18: ...ions of the integrated circuits The A D converter calibration is done during manufacturing of the UFG 05 unit and the user does not need normally to use this button In order to perform the calibration properly the set up needs to fulfill the following requirements The test image source has to be calibrated The test image must contain large fully white and fully black areas The test image must cont...

Page 19: ...t Some applications might need reconfiguration as this setting is applied when the graph is rebuilt The SRC SRC 2 SRC 3 SRC 4 frame rate settings give the best picture quality because they give a Frame Locked stream When you use them rebuild the graph each time the source frame rate changes When capturing the PCI bus bandwidth might be the bottleneck of the system especially if you use a high perf...

Page 20: ...he preview window open the Video Capture Pin dialog and press Cancel If you use the Override FPS function in AmCap you cannot set the frame rate in the Capture Set Frame rate menu If you experience issues with the AmCap exe in Windows SDK Vista Build 6000 please use the application from the previous releases of Windows Platform SDK Windows Media Encoder Windows Media Encoder is a standard referenc...

Page 21: ...andwidth You can calculate the data bandwidth needed to capture certain resolution image with the requested frame rate The bandwidth can be calculated using the formula W ResX ResY FPS 4 Bytes where W is the bandwidth ResX is the captured horizontal resolution ResY captured vertical resolution FPS the captured frame rate frame per second For example a 1920 x 1080 signal with 20 fps needs a bandwid...

Page 22: ...he user sees the Achieved Frame Rate fps halved Frame Locking The achieved frame rate is not only dependent on the card to PC bus transfer speed It is also dependent on the CPU performance the memory bandwidth and the hard disk data rate specially when capturing non compressed video Please prefer the Frame Locked operation In this operation mode the hardware provides frames to the application only...

Page 23: ...lution Range 640 x 480 to 1920 x 1200 Horizontal Sync Range 45 Hz to 120 Hz Input locking to 50 Hz and 60 Hz Pixel Frequency Range 25 MHz to 160 MHz Color Depth 8 bits per color component S Video and Composite Video Input Connector S Video Connector Supported standards PAL NTSC SECAM HW Features PCI bus Bus Master using shared interrupt UFG 05 32 UFG 05 Dual 32 32 bit 66 MHz PCI 2 2 UFG 05 64 PCI ...

Page 24: ... UFG 05 Dual 32 UFG 05 Dual 64 1920 x 1200 60 fps 14 fps 11 fps 6 fps 16 fps 1920 x 1080 60 fps 15 fps 13 fps 7 fps 16 fps 1600 x 1200 60 fps 17 fps 14 fps 8 fps 16 fps 1400 x 1050 60 fps 22 fps 18 fps 10 fps 22 fps 1280 x 1024 60 fps 25 fps 21 fps 11 fps 24 fps 1280 x 720 60 fps 36 fps 29 fps 15 fps 35 fps 1024 x 768 60 fps 42 fps 35 fps 14 fps 41 fps 800 x 600 60 fps 60 fps 57 fps 29 fps 60 fps ...

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