PICOLO U4 H.264 PCI-104 Overview

Picolo U4 H.264 PCI-104 is a ruggedized video capture board featuring real-time H.264 on-board compression for 4 video channels along with high-quality audio capabilities. Thanks to a high resistance to extreme temperatures, shocks, vibrations and humidity, Picolo U4 H.264 PCI-104 is particularly well suited for embedded security systems for rail and road transportation, police vehicles equipment or any mobile or outdoor video-surveillance application. The ruggedized characteristics of the board are also appropriate for video-surveillance systems installed in extreme industrial environments.

The on-board decoders and processor perform on-the-fly data processing: scaling, fixed cropping, contrast, brightness, saturation, color conversion, mask or caption insertion, decimation and storage format. The acquired streams, one compressed and one uncompressed, with different configurations, can be sent from the frame grabber memory to two different memory locations, such as the computer main memory for storage, and the graphic board memory for preview and display.

The following lists the main features of the board.

System

Video Capture

Video decoder/formatter - analog video decoding

On-Board Compression

Video encoder

Audio Capture

Video Pass-Through Selector

Any of 4 video inputs, or the cascade video input, can be routed to video output.

I/O sub-system