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Yuan SC542N1 MC SDI Mini PCIe SDI Frame Grabber with 1080p60 Input
mPCIeSC542N1 MC SDI Overview
A small embedded PC that records an SDI camera often has nowhere to fit a PCIe card, and still needs smooth 60 fps capture. The SC542N1 MC SDI is Yuan’s Mini PCIe SDI frame grabber for that host, capturing one SDI feed at full frame rate and passing it on through a loop-through output.
The card captures SDI up to 1920 x 1080p at 60/50 fps, with HD-SDI at 1080p30/25/24, 1080i60/50 and 720p60/50, and SD-SDI at 720 x 480i and 720 x 576i. Capture and preview formats cover RGB24 and RGB32 at 4:4:4, YUY2 at 4:2:2, and YV12 and NV12 at 4:2:0, all at 8-bit. Audio comes from the SDI embedded channel or analogue left and right inputs on a wafer connector, captured as stereo 16-bit at 32 to 48 kHz. On-board processing handles cropping and scaling, auto signal detection and deinterlacing. There is no built-in hardware encoder, so any encoding is left to the host software.
The card runs on a PCIe x1 link in a Mini PCIe socket. Software support runs through Yuan’s Windows and Linux SDK and standard DirectShow and V4L2 drivers, and Yuan names vMix, OBS, Zoom, Skype, Teams, Discord, Slack, Cisco Webex and GoToMeeting as compatible. The SC540N1 MC SDI is the same size with 1080p30 capture, and the SC542N1 MC HDV takes HDMI, DVI-I or YPbPr sources at 1080p60.
Operating system support covers Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, Linux from kernel 2.6.14 in 32-bit and 64-bit builds, Linux on ARM, and NVIDIA Jetson TX2, Nano, AGX Xavier and Xavier NX modules. The board measures 30 x 50.95 mm. Yuan lists multi-device and multi-instance support, for hosts that run more than one card or capture session.
SC542N1 MC SDI Specifications
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Brand & Model | Yuan SC542N1 MC SDI |
| Video Capture | |
| Host Interface | Mini PCIe |
| Simultaneous Video Inputs | 1 |
| Video Input | 1x SDI |
| Video Resolution Input | HD60 [1920x1080p @ 60/50fps] |
| Video Output | 1x SDI |
| Video Resolution Output | HD60 [1920x1080p @ 60/50fps] |
| Colour Format | NV12 RGB24 RGB32 YUY2 YV12 |
| Audio Input | 1x SDI Embedded Audio Input |
| Audio Output | 1x SDI Embedded Audio Output |
Official Yuan UK Distributor
Things Embedded is an official Yuan UK distributor, supplying the SC542N1 MC SDI fitted in the compact capture systems we build for UK video projects. Within the Yuan range the SC540N1 M2 SDI puts an SDI input on an M.2 card, and the SC542N1-L SDI is the PCIe x1 card with SDI loop-through.
As a full-rate SDI card for small hosts the SC542N1 MC SDI sits among our Mini PCIe capture cards and our SDI video capture cards. Where an embedded PC with only a Mini PCIe socket must capture one SDI camera at 1080p60, this is the model to specify.
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