An expansion card or external peripheral designed to digitize analog or uncompressed digital video streams. It takes inputs from sources like cameras, game consoles, or older VCRs, and encodes them into a format the host computer can record or stream. High-end cards handle the heavy lifting of video encoding onboard to reduce the load on the host CPU.
Heard on the job
Route the uncompressed HDMI output from the camera directly into the PCIe capture card for the live stream.
Also heard as
- video capture card