UB5A0N4 - Opinions - Information Options  Watch this topic  Print this topic » Normal Threaded

Previous Topic Next Topic

Speegs		#1 Posted : Friday, September 4, 2015 5:03:33 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 8/3/2013(UTC) Posts: 405 Location: Gold Coast, Australia Thanks: 27 times Was thanked: 76 time(s) in 58 post(s)		Hello, I just saw this Yuan EB5A0N4 on the hardware compatibility list and VMix Blog. I wanting to hear from someone who has one, so many questions. 1. How much is it? (In Australia even better) 2. Does it have an inbuilt scaler? 3. Are there any special requirements on the USB 3 port? (Magewell stuff works great on my systems, but dumping 4 inputs down the one port wow.. how does that work, is there enough bandwidth?) 4. Does it require drivers or does it work driverless and emulate a webcam? 5. Anyone have any negative/positive feedback about it? 6. Is it reliable? Regards, Speegs
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

	Wanna join the discussion?! Login to your vMix Forums forum account, or Register a new forum account.

jmcmniku		#2 Posted : Friday, September 4, 2015 5:46:39 PM(UTC)
Rank: Newbie Groups: Registered Joined: 8/13/2014(UTC) Posts: 8 Location: sweden Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)		here is response,to some of the questions, from our friends at Yuan : " 1. Does it have an inbuilt scaler like Magewell devices? CORRECTION: "UB5A0 no scaler inside. They need decode h264 stream and scale the raw data by their software." 2. Are there any special requirements on the USB 3 port? As its the hardware compression box therefore there wont be an issue for it 3. Does it require drivers or does it work driverless like Magewell? Yes, it requires a driver. Same as our capture card series. "
		WWW
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

Speegs		#3 Posted : Friday, September 4, 2015 6:55:37 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 8/3/2013(UTC) Posts: 405 Location: Gold Coast, Australia Thanks: 27 times Was thanked: 76 time(s) in 58 post(s)		jmcmniku wrote: here is response,to some of the questions, from our friends at Yuan : " 1. Does it have an inbuilt scaler like Magewell devices? Yes. It has an inbuild scaler on it. 2. Are there any special requirements on the USB 3 port? As its the hardware compression box therefore there wont be an issue for it 3. Does it require drivers or does it work driverless like Magewell? Yes, it requires a driver. Same as our capture card series. " I'm not quite sure what the impact of being a hardware compression box is? What would be the delay from a camera to being able to render onscreen in Vmix? Any higher than a normal capture device? Main thing I'm thinking is DANGER.. Will not be so good for live production as would definitely have higher latency. Much like using an IP Camera as an input does (it is compressed H.264 requiring decoding via VMix). While still looks pretty good, is not a "true" image from the camera. I'm trying to sort out the details.
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

admin		#4 Posted : Friday, September 4, 2015 10:25:42 PM(UTC)
Rank: Administration Groups: Administrators Joined: 1/13/2010(UTC) Posts: 5,214 Location: Gold Coast, Australia Was thanked: 4301 time(s) in 1523 post(s)		The delay is only a couple of frames when using our new "H264 Low Latency" Video Format option when adding the camera in vMix 16. This was especially designed for devices like this and allows multiple video inputs from a single USB 3.0 device.
		WWW BLOG
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

Speegs		#5 Posted : Saturday, September 5, 2015 4:26:53 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 8/3/2013(UTC) Posts: 405 Location: Gold Coast, Australia Thanks: 27 times Was thanked: 76 time(s) in 58 post(s)		admin wrote: The delay is only a couple of frames when using our new "H264 Low Latency" Video Format option when adding the camera in vMix 16. This was especially designed for devices like this and allows multiple video inputs from a single USB 3.0 device. Sounds like an impressive unit and I'm running out of reasons not to try one. I wish it was available years ago, my systems would have be designed a very different way. Is there a quality loss using the H264 Low Latency video format? I'm wondering what kind of H.264 bandwidth is being used down the USB 3. If it's 20mbit + of H264 the loss will be very hard to notice. Seems this is a new way of doing things and could be great driving the costs down for capturing many cameras at once. With nice SDI connections as well.
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

richardgatarski		#6 Posted : Saturday, September 5, 2015 5:29:28 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 2/18/2014(UTC) Posts: 1,837 Location: Stockholm Thanks: 144 times Was thanked: 297 time(s) in 250 post(s)		JMC Systems in Sweden are kind to lend me one next week to try. Will report here as soon as I have played with it.
		WWW
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

Speegs		#7 Posted : Sunday, September 13, 2015 9:25:16 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 8/3/2013(UTC) Posts: 405 Location: Gold Coast, Australia Thanks: 27 times Was thanked: 76 time(s) in 58 post(s)		richardgatarski wrote: JMC Systems in Sweden are kind to lend me one next week to try. Will report here as soon as I have played with it. How did you go Richard?
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

richardgatarski		#8 Posted : Tuesday, September 15, 2015 10:58:35 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 2/18/2014(UTC) Posts: 1,837 Location: Stockholm Thanks: 144 times Was thanked: 297 time(s) in 250 post(s)		We did some quick test last Friday, generally OK. But I have promised to let Yuan and their distributor JMC comment before I post the report (including videos). Still waiting for their response...
		WWW
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

richardgatarski		#9 Posted : Thursday, September 17, 2015 10:45:28 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 2/18/2014(UTC) Posts: 1,837 Location: Stockholm Thanks: 144 times Was thanked: 297 time(s) in 250 post(s)		OK, here you have our Unboxing and testing the Yuan UB5A04N hybrid. Full lab report there, with videos and comments from Yuan and Martin. Quick summary: The Yuan box is really interesting, works better than we expected. On the one hand, it’s H264 compression affects the video quality. On the other hand it’s a neat way to get 4 SDI inputs (or other combos) via USB3. Main limitation is that it might require a lot of CPU power for decoding. So, if you are thinking of a portable laptop-based solution, this box may not be the solution. (Martin says he might in the future look into better CPU usage for the decoding).
		WWW
3 users thanked richardgatarski for this useful post.		jmcmniku on 9/17/2015(UTC), ClementN on 9/17/2015(UTC), Speegs on 9/17/2015(UTC)
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

Speegs		#10 Posted : Thursday, September 17, 2015 7:21:50 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 8/3/2013(UTC) Posts: 405 Location: Gold Coast, Australia Thanks: 27 times Was thanked: 76 time(s) in 58 post(s)		richardgatarski wrote: OK, here you have our Unboxing and testing the Yuan UB5A04N hybrid. Full lab report there, with videos and comments from Yuan and Martin. The unrecognized RS485 is essential a 2 wire + ground serial port. Great for controlling PTZ Cameras with pretty common cable. It's common in security cameras. I use RS485 to control a PTZ via a 3 axis Joystick. Works really well. You can of course buy software to run on the computer to send signals down RS485 for camera control.
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

Speegs		#11 Posted : Thursday, September 17, 2015 7:31:45 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 8/3/2013(UTC) Posts: 405 Location: Gold Coast, Australia Thanks: 27 times Was thanked: 76 time(s) in 58 post(s)		Excellent testing. I really like how you showed the cpu usage impact and you compared it to a capture device I use often :) I like the look of what it can do. However the cpu drain could be a deal breaker for laptop use. Laptop computers don't usually have massive GPU options either so seems better suited to a desktop as you advise. Better CPUs and GPUs in laptops would help of course.
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

richardgatarski		#12 Posted : Tuesday, September 22, 2015 7:00:56 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 2/18/2014(UTC) Posts: 1,837 Location: Stockholm Thanks: 144 times Was thanked: 297 time(s) in 250 post(s)		Thanks Speegs, And you are spot on regarding the RS485 port - Yuan also pointed this out after seeing our blog post.
		WWW
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

hubert17		#13 Posted : Wednesday, September 28, 2016 1:10:27 PM(UTC)
Rank: Member Groups: Registered Joined: 4/10/2016(UTC) Posts: 13 Location: Philippines Thanks: 3 times		Hi Martin and Richard! Do you have any update on this product? How is now the CPU issue? I am planning to buy this when I visit Taiwan.
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

richardgatarski		#14 Posted : Friday, September 30, 2016 3:50:24 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 2/18/2014(UTC) Posts: 1,837 Location: Stockholm Thanks: 144 times Was thanked: 297 time(s) in 250 post(s)		No update really. We never tried the low-latency option. The high CPU usage was for us a limiting factor.
		WWW
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

gt351		#15 Posted : Wednesday, November 23, 2016 7:30:37 PM(UTC)
Rank: Newbie Groups: Registered Joined: 1/1/2016(UTC) Posts: 7 Location: Gold Coast		hubert17 wrote: Hi Martin and Richard! Do you have any update on this product? How is now the CPU issue? I am planning to buy this when I visit Taiwan. any updates or known cpu usage when streaming with 4 cameras
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

mkobzar		#16 Posted : Wednesday, January 11, 2017 10:45:26 AM(UTC)
Rank: Member Groups: Registered Joined: 7/6/2014(UTC) Posts: 17 Location: Russia		1st russian review and test yuan hardware
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

mkobzar		#17 Posted : Sunday, January 22, 2017 1:09:16 AM(UTC)
Rank: Member Groups: Registered Joined: 7/6/2014(UTC) Posts: 17 Location: Russia		2nd video in depth about this card. Russian language, but google works on subtitles!
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

ask		#18 Posted : Sunday, January 22, 2017 1:51:06 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 10/13/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,162 Location: Melbourne Thanks: 220 times Was thanked: 199 time(s) in 181 post(s)		mkobzar wrote: 2nd video in depth about this card. Russian language, but google works on subtitles! Yes Subtitles work...in Russian. LOL. The production looks great however.
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

mkobzar		#19 Posted : Monday, February 6, 2017 4:58:05 AM(UTC)
Rank: Member Groups: Registered Joined: 7/6/2014(UTC) Posts: 17 Location: Russia		ask wrote: mkobzar wrote: 2nd video in depth about this card. Russian language, but google works on subtitles! Yes Subtitles work...in Russian. LOL. The production looks great however. Thanks, use auto translator, please.
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

ask		#20 Posted : Monday, February 6, 2017 4:37:59 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered Joined: 10/13/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,162 Location: Melbourne Thanks: 220 times Was thanked: 199 time(s) in 181 post(s)		LOL. Did not realise YT did that! Not easy finding the settings, and I guess they have a long way to go with the translations...."she came out of the box four years ago"....but it made my day!
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

Users browsing this topic

Guest