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The card has a plethora of adapters for various types of video input. At the moment we only care about HDMI. The HDMI inputs are on a separate slot, connected to the card via HDMI cables. There is an input port and an output port. They aren't labelled, but the input port is the one closest to the ePCI connector (e.g. closer to the motherboard). The HDMI slot should be wired to match this. See the Connection Diagrams on the support page linked above. | The card has a plethora of adapters for various types of video input. At the moment we only care about HDMI. The HDMI inputs are on a separate slot, connected to the card via HDMI cables. There is an input port and an output port. They aren't labelled, but the input port is the one closest to the ePCI connector (e.g. closer to the motherboard). The HDMI slot should be wired to match this. See the Connection Diagrams on the support page linked above. | ||
The drivers are available at the support page under the not-entirely-obvious name "Desktop Video for Linux". The current version is 8.0.1. The archive contains debs, rpms, and tarballs for various distros. On Ubuntu, the drivers can be installed with <tt>dpkg -i</tt> and the appropriate (32-bit or 64-bit) deb filename. This will install the kernel module, the shared libraries, a configuration app, and a firmware-updater app. See the readme in the archive for more details on installation. | |||
Before doing anything with the card, you'll need to run the configuration program <tt>BlackmagicControlPanel</tt>. This utility is mostly used to activate particular hardware inputs and outputs, since not all can be active at the same time. You'll need to select HDMI input, and, if you want to see output on a separate screen, HDMI output. | |||
== MediaExpress == | |||
There is also a GUI program in the DesktopVideo package called MediaExpress. It can be installed from a deb file in the same way. MediaExpress can be useful to discover the DeckLink's capabilities and supported modes. | |||
To run it from Linux, just enter <tt>MediaExpress</tt> in a terminal. For best results it requires a 1920x1200-resolution monitor. It is still usable at lesser resolutions, although some of the UI will be cropped. | |||