Martin Professional Entrusts Video Capture for Media Servers to DELTACAST Products

Under a new agreement signed with Belgium OEM video I/O card supplier DELTACAST, Martin Professional will be using the DELTA-hd and DELTA-dvi video capture cards in its popular Maxedia PRO™ and Maxedia Broadcast™ media servers.

 “The DELTACAST capture cards give us the opportunity to offer the fastest and highest quality video capture to our customers,” states Paul Pelletier, Commercial Product Manager – Controllers for Martin Professional. “Implementation of the DELTACAST cards was quite easy and fit perfectly with our highly efficient Maxedia video engine. We couldn’t ask for a better fit.”

Under the Martin brand, the DELTACAST capture cards are called the MCC HD-SDI (DELTA-hd) and the MCC DVI (DELTA-dvi).

“By implementing this DELTACAST technology, we are able to get very low latency,” Pelletier continues. “It also allowed us to upgrade the Maxedia software engine from 2 inputs to 8 inputs and depending on the hardware revision, customers can add multiple DELTACAST cards to meet their individual needs.”

Both the DELTA-hd and DELTA-dvi capture cards are used for video input in the Maxedia products. The Maxedia Broadcast makes use of the DELTA-hd’s 8-bit HD SDI digital video to PCI Express PC gateways while Maxedia PRO uses the DELTA-dvi for DVI-D or DVI-A to PCI Express PC gateways.

“Thanks to our unified VideoMasterHD SDK, Martin Professional can propose both Dual Link DVI and HD-SD SDI inputs to their end customers without having to develop two different applications to manage each video standard,” commented Steven Deschuyteneer, DELTACAST’s Director of Worldwide Sales & Marketing. “It is really a perfect and characteristic application for our OEM products and encourages us to continue proposing a variety of digital video standards through our unified VideoMasterHD OEM SDK.”