KRONOS K8 & K8 R
KRONOS K8 Software
Bluefish444 have developed a unified cross-platform Software Development Kit designed by software developers for software developers, who wish to integrate K8 into their solutions. The BlueVelvetC API enables programmers to write the SDK code once and then deploy to other operating systems without any changes to their code.
The SDK provides a simple, consistent and extensible interface to all Bluefish444 hardware products. It provides a number of useful abstractions and interfaces designed to relieve the developer of direct hardware involvement freeing them to concentrate on developing.
SDK
The Bluefish444 SDK can be used with Visual Studio, .Net, Delphi, gcc, mingw, Xcode and offers/supports the following APIs:
- pure C API (BlueVelvetC), Windows/Linux/Mac
- C++ class (BlueVelvet), Windows/Linux
- COM (BlueVelvetCom), Windows
- DirectShow, Windows
- AMD DirectGMA access, Windows
- NVIDIA GPUDirect access, Windows
- V4L2, Linux
DirectShow
Bluefish444 provides video and audio source and render filters that support a range of features such as:
- Hardware-based reference clock
- 4K/UHD/2K/HD/SD
- Independant video modes per-channel
- All available SDI Input sources
- All available SDI Output sources
- 16/24/32-bit audio samples
- 16 channels embedded audio
Video4Linux2
Bluefish444 provides video support with V4L2 with a range of features such as:
- 4K/UHD/2K/HD/SD
- Independant video modes per-channel
- All available SDI Input sources
- All available SDI Output sources
AMD DirectGMA For Video
Creative professionals rely on powerful workstation solutions that offer outstanding graphics and computational performance to get High Definition (HD) and Ultra-High Definition (UHD) video into the system for image processing on the GPU, and to play out the results as close to real-time as possible. AMD via AMD FirePro™ professional graphics worked closely with Bluefish444 to develop DirectGMA, a technology that reduces latency in live/on-air broadcast graphics workflows and provides the necessary system bandwidth for demanding 4K and 5K digital cinema applications.
NVIDIA GPUDirect For Video
NVIDIA® GPUDirect for Video technology allows Bluefish444 hardware to communicate directly with NVIDIA GPUs. By taking advantage of this new API the historical issues of introducing too much delay or latency are gone. With NVIDIA GPUDirect for Video, devices are fully synchronised and the CPU doesn’t waste cycles copying data between device drivers. This flexible API gives full control to Bluefish444 hardware developers to stream video to and from the GPU at sub-frame transfer times.
Medialooks
Bluefish444 is a technology partner with Medialooks who have an extensive set of developer video libraries reducing product development time.
The Medialooks MPlatform SDK makes it easy to create professional playout, streaming, vision mixing and ingest software with low-latency I/O integration for K8.
Developer tools
K8 developers are supplied with tools to streamline the development of SDI I/O support in 3rd-party applications. These tools include input and output preview and full access to video card properties.
Bluefish444 software
K8 is fully compatible with free to download software developed by Bluefish444 including the traditional Digital Intermediate application Symmetry and the multi-channel capture application IngeSTore.
3rd-party Software
Bluefish444 develop support for popular 3rd-party software providing plug-ins and integration into some of the world's most popular content creation tools on Microsoft Windows operating systems. K8 is compatible with:
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