2.6. Capture card support

Is Boro compatible with ASI/SDI/HDMI capture cards?

Boro is intended to monitor IP streams and MPEG-TS files only. However, if a stream can be delivered to IP network, for example in localhost interface, it is possible to perform analysis. It is only applicable for ASI cards.

Note

It is not possible to use Boro with SDI/HDMI capture cards as they use uncompressed data, while Boro uses encoded data encapsulated to a transport stream.

Does Boro support DVB signal analysis?

Basically Boro does not support DVB capture cards. To perform analysis Elecard may offer the following scheme, which has been successfully tested:

It is necessary to use capture cards managed by Elecard CodecWorks Encoder software. Transport stream is sent to localhost or to one of network interfaces, from where it is captured by Boro. At the output of CodecWorks Encoder the stream can be either in the original MPTS format (containing different tables) or split into SPTS streams. T2MI is not supported.

CodecWorks Encoder supports the following DVB capture cards: