Processing Golf Virtual Spectator, Bluefish444 and AMD SDI-Link
17 May, 2012
Founded over 20 years ago, Australia-based Virtual Spectator International has been specialising in sports broadcast for the past twelve years. We have developed custom solutions with proprietary technologies that have been used throughout Australia, Europe, and the Americas by most of the top tier broadcasters for premier sporting events such as the PGA Tour, Wimbledon, World Rally Championship, Volvo Ocean Race, America’s Cup, Ashes cricket series, The King Edward VII Gold Cup, and The Melbourne Cup.
Kieran Rivers, Virtual Spectator;
"We utilise many features of Bluefish444 hardware such as full duplex for simultaneous capture/playback and multichannel HD SDI I/O. The addition of onboard hardware scaling is also a great feature. It allows lower bandwidth requirements for windowed video frames as the full frame doesn’t need to be passed to the GPU for scaling. These features, working in conjunction with AMD’s FirePro V7900 SDI GPU via AMD SDI-Link, have enabled Virtual Spectator to develop more complex accelerated real time graphics for live broadcast as either 2D/3D over HD SDI. This is a significant benefit to broadcasters."
