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SDI - serial digital interface
General SDI vs. HDMI Information
SDI is easier to connect to other professional equipment than HDMI. It is an all purpose signal, as opposed to HDMI that was originally intended only to connect to ...
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What do different types of SDI mean?
SDI stands for Serial Digital Interface. Over time, the bandwidth needs of video have changed drastically, and so SDI has gone through a number of revisions and different solutions for handling the ...
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SDI - serial digital interface
SDI is a professional, locking video connection system over coax cable. SDI itself has more expensive licensing costs associated with it than HDMI, so hardware that supports it will generally be more ...
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SDI - serial digital interface
In short; HD-SDI and SDI are the industry standard for professional applications; and HDMI is for consumers.
HDMI is highly limited in terms of length; you will need a very high quality cable to go ...
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How to set a specific ffmpeg Decklink device output format using format number?
Not sure exactly if this will help at all but you used to be able to do something like this:
ffmpeg -f decklink -i "DeckLink Mini Recorder (1)@7"
Where 7 is the number that is outputed in the ...
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How to set a specific ffmpeg Decklink device output format using format number?
I don't see any option in the source to set output format parameters via the serial number.
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What cable for 200' run between camera (video/audio) and ATEM switcher
You need to use cable specifically designed for SDI. RG59 essentially only defines the impedance and capacitance of the cable, not the return loss and attenuation characteristics. You can use ...
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How do I playout rtmp stream to SDI (Decklink Studio 4K) using FFMPEG command?we are using Windows 7 operating system
As the docs say,
you need the Blackmagic DeckLink SDK and you need to configure with
the appropriate --extra-cflags and --extra-ldflags. On Windows, you
need to run the IDL files through widl
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