User guide

Viz Engine Administrator’s Guide

DVS Centaurus II and the extension card

• Connect the separate SDI/RS-422 panel with the DVS Centaurus II main card

according to the enumeration shown in the illustration above.

21.8.2 Supported Codecs

Currently, the DVS implementation only supports the Microsoft DirectShow Filtergraph

framework to render video clips. Therefore it is possible to play for example MPEG files

or streams from a server. For more information on how to use video clips in Viz, see the

Viz Artist manual and in particular the Mo Viz plug-in.

Basically, it can play everything that can be played out by the Windows Media Player,

so it depends on what codecs/DirectShow filters that are installed on the machine.

21.8.3 Driver Installation

The following driver versions are supported:

• Viz 3.x: Viz 3.5.4 and later

• Driver: SDK 4.3.5.10

• Viz 3.x: Viz 3.5.2 - 3.5.3

• Driver: SDK 4.2.9.8

• Viz 3.x: Viz 3.3.0 - 3.5.1

• Driver: SDK 4.0.1.15

For information on how to install or update the driver, see the DVS SDK 2.7 User Guide.

21.8.4 Licensing

A few additional steps are required before Viz Engine is able to use the DVS Centaurus

II card after a first time installation. First it is necessary To install a DVS Centaurus II

license , and then To validate the DVS Centaurus II license .