Standalone VGA Grid User's Guide

Standalone VGA Grid User Guide Standalone VGA Grid Overview
Standalone VGA Grid Overview
Epiphan's VGAGrid allows you to capture, stream, and record audio and video from a large number of VGA,
DVI, HDMI, composite and component sources. It supports streaming to a large number of viewers using
industry-standard codecs such as H.264 and MPEG-TS. Supporting resolutions between 640×480 and
2048×2048, the VGAGrid is suitable for a broad range of applications.
This versatile system has a variety of options enabling you to create and configure any number of streaming
channels. You can choose to stream (or record) a single channel at once or a configuration of synchronized
channels with picture-in-picture or picture-with-picture multiplexing selections.
The VGAGrid comes in two styles to meet your needs:Networked and Standalone. The Standalone VGA
Grid captures video and audio through internal cards. Depending on the model, it has 4 or 6 DVI source ports,
4 or 6 SDI source ports and 4 or 6 S-Video source ports. The latest hardware models(with SDIcapture) also
support HDMI and SDIaudio capture. Encoding and synchronization of the stream is done locally on the
Standalone VGA Grid. The Networked VGAGrid has no internal capture cards, instead it uses VGAGrid HD
Encoders to capture and encode sources, sending the already encoded stream to the VGAGrid. Using external
encoders means the VGAGrid has less stress on its CPU so it can handle a greater number of inputs.
HDMIaudio capture and SDI video capture are not supported with Networked VGAGrid systems.
AV inputs
The latest hardware revision of Standalone VGA Grid supports the following AVinputs directly. Nearly every
other AV input is supported provided you have the correct converter or adapter.
This document covers the Standalone VGA Grid.
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