BlackMagic DeckLink

Supported hardware devices

Supported platforms

• Windows 32 bits
• Windows 64 bits
• macOS
• Linux

BlackMagic DeckLink SDK Versions

Please build PLUS BlackMagic support against the following DeckLink SDK versions. Other versions may work, but are not regularly tested by the PLUS developer team.

• DeckLink v 11.1

Building the BlackMagic DeckLink PLUS support

Device configuration settings

• 
  Type = "BlackMagic"
  
• 
  ToolReferenceFrame
  

  Default = "Tracker"
• 
  DataSources
  
  • 
    DataSource
    

Config File

<PlusConfiguration version="2.0">

  <DataCollection StartupDelaySec="1.0" >
    <DeviceSet 
      Name="PlusServer: DeckLink capture API - color"
      Description="Broadcasting acquired video through OpenIGTLink" />
    <Device
      Id="VideoDevice" 
      Type="DeckLinkVideo" 
      FrameSize="1920 1080"
      DisplayMode="HD1080p5994"
      PixelFormat="8BitYUV"
      CaptureDeviceId="0" >
      <DataSources>
        <DataSource Type="Video" Id="Video" PortUsImageOrientation="UN" ImageType="RGB_COLOR"  />
      </DataSources>
      <OutputChannels>
        <OutputChannel Id="VideoStream" VideoDataSourceId="Video" />
      </OutputChannels>
    </Device>

    <Device
      Id="CaptureDevice"
      Type="VirtualCapture"
      BaseFilename="decklink.igs.nrrd"
      EnableCapturingOnStart="FALSE"
      EnableCompression="TRUE"    >
      <InputChannels>
        <InputChannel Id="VideoStream" />
      </InputChannels>
    </Device>
  </DataCollection>
  
  <PlusOpenIGTLinkServer 
    MaxNumberOfIgtlMessagesToSend="1" 
    MaxTimeSpentWithProcessingMs="50" 
    ListeningPort="18944" 
    SendValidTransformsOnly="true" 
    OutputChannelId="VideoStream" > 
    <DefaultClientInfo> 
      <MessageTypes> 
        <Message Type="IMAGE" />
      </MessageTypes>
      <ImageNames>
        <Image Name="Image" EmbeddedTransformToFrame="Image" />
      </ImageNames>
    </DefaultClientInfo>
  </PlusOpenIGTLinkServer>

</PlusConfiguration>