Standalone VGA Grid User's Guide

Standalone VGA Grid User Guide
Force the capture card to use a specific EDID
Like monitors, each video capture card in theStandalone VGA Grid contains an EDID. When you connect a
VGA or DVI video source (such as a laptop or video camera), this source sees the Standalone VGA Grid's HD
Encoder's capture card as a monitor and uses its EDID to negotiate which video signal to send.
Generally the capture card's DVI input correctly emulates a monitor that supports your video source.
However sometimes, particularly if your source uses a custom set of display properties, you need to help
Standalone VGA Grid's HD Encoder by uploading a custom EDID to force the capture card to report that it
emulates a resolution, color depth, etc needed by your laptop, camera or other video source.
Upload a new EDID
In most circumstances the factory installed default EDID, is sufficient. However, there may be some cases
where a video source uses resolutions that you do not want to use. In that case you can choose an EDID that
forces the Standalone VGA Grid's capture card to use a specific set of attributes.
The uploaded EDID is permanently installed on your system and this capture card(a "Source" in the Admin
panel) will always share the uploaded EDIDwith the connected video input source.
EDID changes are permanent until you replace them with another EDID or specifically choose to
restore the facotry EDID for a given source. Not even a system-level factory reset removes the
configured EDIDs.
1. To download a new EDID file, go to the Epiphan support web page. The support page opens.
2. Select the support page for Standalone VGA Grid.
3. Scroll to the EDID section.
4. Click on an EDIDfrom the list. The file is saved to your downloads folder on your hard drive.
5. Connect to the Admin panel using your preferred connection mechanism. See Connect to the Admin
panel.
6. Login as admin.
7. From the Admin panel, Scroll to the Sources section.
8. Click the name of the DVI capture card (source) for which you want to upload an EDID; the
SourceConfiguration page opens.
9. Scroll to the EDID upload section.
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