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If you could provide a patch I'd merge it, otherwise please remind me to check the issue within the summer.

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OK Lu, I send you the patch asap.

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Thank you!

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:28 PM, c0ntact0 [email protected] wrote:

OK Lu, I send you the patch asap.

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Hi Luca.

The patch follows in attach. This patch it's made for the mac branch (sorry for that, I don't test it linux, just in MacOS Lion) and add the missing inputs (optical and S-Video) for the mac branch, add the print_capabilities function to list the supported video input connections and add the query to the IDeckLinkInput interface. The code query the output first, if fails query the input.

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Subject: Re: [bmdtools] Decklink mini recorder and bmdcapture modes list (#18)

Thank you!

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OK Lu, I send you the patch asap.

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Hi c0ntact0,
I've successfully applied your patch, but I can't capture 1080P video signal via SDI input.
Here is my setup [Video Source] -----SDI---->[Decklink mini recorder]----->[BMDCapture]--->[AVCONV].

bmdcapture -h
Usage: bmdcapture -m [OPTIONS]

-m <mode id>:

-> DeckLink Mini Recorder (-C 0 )

Supported video output display modes and pixel formats:
0: NTSC 720 x 486 29.97 FPS
1: NTSC 23.98 720 x 486 23.976 FPS
2: PAL 720 x 576 25 FPS
3: NTSC Progressive 720 x 486 59.9401 FPS
4: PAL Progressive 720 x 576 50 FPS
5: HD 1080p 23.98 1920 x 1080 23.976 FPS
6: HD 1080p 24 1920 x 1080 24 FPS
7: HD 1080p 25 1920 x 1080 25 FPS
8: HD 1080p 29.97 1920 x 1080 29.97 FPS
9: HD 1080p 30 1920 x 1080 30 FPS
10: HD 1080i 50 1920 x 1080 25 FPS
11: HD 1080i 59.94 1920 x 1080 29.97 FPS
12: HD 1080i 60 1920 x 1080 30 FPS
13: HD 720p 50 1280 x 720 50 FPS
14: HD 720p 59.94 1280 x 720 59.9401 FPS
15: HD 720p 60 1280 x 720 60 FPS

-v                   Be verbose (report each 25 frames)
-f <filename>        Filename raw video will be written to
-F <format>          Define the file format to be used
-c <channels>        Audio Channels (2, 8 or 16 - default is 2)
-s <depth>           Audio Sample Depth (16 or 32 - default is 16)
-p <pixel>           PixelFormat Depth (8 or 10 - default is 8)
-n <frames>          Number of frames to capture (default is unlimited)
-M <memlimit>        Maximum queue size in GB (default is 1 GB)
-C <num>             number of card to be used
-A <audio-in>        Audio input:
                     1: Analog (RCA or XLR)
                     2: Embedded Audio (HDMI/SDI)
                     3: Digital Audio (AES/EBU)
-V <video-in>        Video input:
                     1: Composite
                     2: Component
                     3: HDMI
                     4: SDI
                     5: Optical SDI
                     6: S-Video

Capture video and audio to a file. Raw video and audio can be sent to a pipe to avconv or vlc e.g.:

bmdcapture -m 2 -A 1 -V 1 -F nut -f pipe:1

bmdcapture -C 0 -m 5 -A 2 -V 4 -F nut -f pipe:1 | /usr/local/bin/avconv -re -i -
avconv version v9-1673-g6fd221e, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the Libav developers
built on Jul 24 2013 11:29:42 with gcc 4.7 (Debian 4.7.2-5)
Frame received (#1) - No input signal detected - Frames dropped 1 - Total dropped 1
[nut @ 0x1b24f40] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.1 : stereo
Input #0, nut, from 'pipe:':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf55.1.0
Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, uyvy422, 1920x1080, 23.98 tbn
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1536 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified

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"At least one output file must be specified"

You must specify a output to avconv (a file or other, i.e. a pipe to avplay). And you may want to convert to some output codec i.e.:

bmdcapture -C 0 -m 5 -A 2 -V 4 -F nut -f pipe:1 | avconv -i - -vcodec mpeg2video -vb 50M -acodec copy output_file.mov

Run "man avconv" in the terminal for mode details.

If you want to capture the raw video from the Decklink to test bmdcapture alone, you can do:

bmdcapture -C 0 -m 5 -A 2 -V 4 -F raw -f output_file.raw

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Hi c0ntact0,
I think you didn't see this "Frame received (#1) - No input signal detected - Frames dropped 1 - Total dropped 1"
Do you have any idea?
Thanks.

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Hi c0ntact0,
I've replace the card (Decklink mini recorder) with a new mini recorder card; everything works fine :)
Thanks.

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madhawa: just to clarify, do you believe the issues you were having were related to the "Decklink Mini Recorder" Card?

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HI,
No. It was a defective Decklink Mini card. I've replace the card &
everything works fine.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:48 PM, PatNarciso [email protected]:

madhawa: just to clarify, do you believe the issues you were having were
related to the "Decklink Mini Recorder" Card?

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Is bmdcapture working with the UltraStudio Mini Recorder? I can't get any further than:
Could not obtain the IDeckLinkConfiguration interface - result = 80000004

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