
AVerMedia Technologies Inc.
DarkCrystal HD Capture Mini-PCIe (C353)
The DarkCrystal HD Capture Mini-PCIe is a PCI Express Mini video capture card which is based on H.264 hardware compression which brings a HD capture while low CPU consumption solution to systems. With one adaptor daughter board, it can ingest and capture HDMI and VGA input sources for monitoring, archiving or analyzing HD video content with more flexibility and possibilities.
AVerMedia DarkCrystal HD Capture Mini-PCIe is a PCI Express Mini video capture card which is based on H.264 hardware compression which brings a HD capture while low CPU consumption solution to systems. With one adaptor daughter board, DarkCrystal HD Capture Mini-PCIe can ingest and capture HDMI and VGA input sources for monitoring, archiving or analyzing HD video content with more flexibilities and possibilities. Up to 60Mbps encoding capability, DarkCrystal HD Capture Mini-PCIe provides industry-leading HW encode performance that preserves the crystal-like video quality but maintains low CPU loading.
To expand the scope of application, DarkCrystal HD Capture Mini-PCIe supports mainstream programming languages and shipped with Software Development Kit that includes often-used functions such as de-interlace, video cropping, image/ video overlay, etc. It is endowed with full functions that required to performing HD video capture for industrial and commercial markets such as gaming PC, event data recorder, medical imaging, machine vision or any industrial imaging. DarkCrystal HD Capture Mini-PCIe commits to shorten the development schedule and provide integrators with complete solutions towards building their own applications.
Module Type |
PCI Express Minicard |
Input |
HDMI VGA(D-Sub) DVI (HDMI Adaptor, optional) |
Video Resolution |
Max. Input Resolution -1080p60 Max. Resolution Captured – 1080p30 VESA Resolution Supported |
Captured Video Output |
H.264 Transport Stream
RAW video (YV12 4:2:0)
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Color Adjustment |
VGA: Brightness, Contrast, Hue (NTSC only), Saturation HDMI: not supported |
Operating Environment |
Temperature: 0 to 55 ℃ Humidity: 0 to 80% RHNC |
Storage Environment |
Temperature: -30 to 65 ℃ Humidity: 0 to 90% RHNC |
Power Requirement |
2.5W |
Dimensions (mm) |
50.8mm x 29.85mm |
System Requirement |
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CPU |
Intel® Core™2 Duo 2.4GHz AMD Athlon™ 64x2 Dual Core 2.8GHz Intel® Core™ i5-2500(4 cores/3.3GHz) or above is required for WMV format recording
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Memory |
2GB RAM |
AVI Format Recording Requirement |
SSD is required for AVI format recording:
- Read: 200MB/s (or above)
- Write: 200MB/s (or above)
- System AHCI function needs to be activate
- SATA III interface on motherboard is required
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VGA |
VGA card with support for DirectX9.0c or above Standalone graphics card is recommended for HD video capturing |
Sound Card |
Yes |
Operating System |
Windows® 8/7 (32/64-Bit) |