System requirements

System requirements are the technical essentials your computer needs to work with your Epiphan video grabber. System requirements to use SDI2USB 3.0 are:

Video source Any 3G-SDI, HD-SDI or SD-SDI source. (SDI2USB 3.0 cannot capture from HDCP encrypted sources)
Video capture workstation

A computer (laptop/desktop/other format) with:

  • a compatible USB 3.0 host controller for SuperSpeed operation (recommended Intel ® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller); or,
  • a USB 2.0 controller
Video capture workstation operating system Windows 10
RAM Minimum recommended value: 4 GB
Available hard disk space 16 GB (32-bit OS) or 20 GB (64-bit OS)

Contact support if you need to use earlier Windows platforms with your capture card. Epiphan drivers for SDI2USB 3.0 from release 3.30.2 onwards use SHA-2 signing, which is not supported on Windows XP or Windows Vista.