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Epiphan's DVI2USB Solo™ is a portable DVI/HDMI to USB frame grabber is ideally suited from capturing video sources for DVI and HDMI based high resolution displays and high definition cameras.

DVI2USB Solo Connection Diagram

Key Features

Captures single link DVI and HDMI¹ video sources
Supports resolutions up to 1920x1200
Ultra portable, external DVI/HDMI to USB 2.0 Frame Grabber device
Sources power from USB port (USB host dependent)
Interfaces to multiple 3rd party applications compatible with DirectShow on Windows, QuickTime on Mac OS X and V4L (Video4Linux) on Linux
Great for recording video demonstration and training vignettes from iPad, computer with presentations, DVI/HDMI cameras, medical displays and many other applications

DVI2USB Solo is Epiphan's most compact DVI capture device. At a capture rate of 30 frames per second, DVI2USB Solo can capture resolutions up to 1920x1200 from HDMI and single-link DVI signals. For DVI/DVI Dual Link see DVI2USBDuo , for VGA and DVI see DVI2USB 3.0

Unlike other capture solutions, DVI2USB Solo allows you to capture raw uncompressed video signals in 100% lossless quality. Whether you are capturing the output from the HDMI connector on a video or DSLR camera, or using DVI2USB Solo to record the images that appear on a DVI computer monitor, the output image will always be sharp.

Because DVI2USB Solo doesn't compress the image or video being captured, the user can select any CODEC to compress with on the computer being captured to. Free software is included with the DVI2USB in order to achieve this. Furthermore, as an external USB device, DVI2USB Solo is fully compatible with 3rd party software that supports video capture from external sources, such as Adobe Premiere, VirtualDUB, and Windows Media Encoder. Like all other Epiphan products, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS are fully supported.

If you need to capture images from a HDMI or single-link DVI source and maintain diagnostic-quality lossless images, then DVI2USB Solo is what you have been looking for.

DVI2USB Solo allows you to:

Capture images from any single-link DVI source.
Capture videos from the DVI source and save them as AVI files, .MOV when captured under OSX on a Mac.
capture DVI from mini display port, display port and thunderbolt interfaces using the appropriate adapter.

DVI2USB SOLO SAMPLE APPLICATIONS

DVI2USB Solo to Record iPad Demonstrations to create training videos, demos and podcasts

With DVI2USB Solo, you can create demonstration videos for your applications use of iPad, record presentations or gameplay from iPad. Simply connect the iPad HDMI display cable to a HDMI to DVI converter and connect the DVI connector to DVI2USB Solo.

DVI2USB Solo capture and record iPad display

You can then run the Epiphan VGA2USB software capture tool application to capture and record, or use 3rd party applications that use supported interfaces such as QuickTime API, DirectShow, Video4Linux.

Once you have recorded the video, you can import it into a video editing tool to apply audio and do further post production

DVI2USB Solo and Podcast Producer from Apple

Epiphan DVI2USB Solo can be used as an external capture tool to acquire display sources, presentations and ingest them into the Podcast Producer Capture product from Apple.

Simply connect DVI2USB Solo to your video source and run the Podcast Producer Capture tool to start ingesting the display source. Display sources can be DVI, HDMI displays such as computers, iPads, laptops, ultra sound machines, and any embedded systems that has a DVI or HDMI display output. This is a great solution for creating lectures, training and demonstration videos without the need to install software on the video source.

Third Party Application Support

Epiphan Frame Grabbers are designed to work with open interfaces such as DirectShow, QuickTime and Video for Linux.

DirectShow Applications (click to expand)

QuickTime Applications (click to expand)

Video For Linux Applications (click to expand)

More Information

Case Studies	See how Epiphan Systems DVI2USB Solo is used for video and image capture by users all over the world.
FAQ	Look through the most asked questions about the DVI2USB Solo.

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¹Requires HDMI to DVI adapter cable. HDMI support limited to non copy protected content, and does not include digital audio source, but can record analog audio source