User Manual
DVI2USB 3.0 User Guide System requirements
System requirements
System requirements are the barebones technical essentials your computer needs to work with your Epiphan
video grabber. System requirements to use DVI2USB 3.0 are:
Video source
Any VESA-compatible VGA, DVI or HDMI source. (DVI2USB
3.0 cannot capture from HDCP encrypted sources)
Video capture workstation
Any computer (laptop/desktop/other format) with:
l a compatible USB 3.0 host controller for SuperSpeed
operation (recommended Intel ® USB 3.0 eXtensible
Host Controller); or,
l a USB 2.0 controller
Video capture workstation
operating system
Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
Mac OS X 10.10 and up
A list of precompiled linux drivers (kernel 3.5 or later) is
available on the product support page
RAM Minimum recommended value: 4 GB
Available hard disk space 16 GB (32-bit OS) or 20 GB(64-bitOS)
Note that the latest versions of the Epiphan drivers for SDI2USB 3.0 (starting with release 3.30.2)
use SHA-2 signing which is not supported on Windows XP or Windows Vista. If you want to use
either of those platforms, we recommend using an older driver. Windows 7 and Windows Server
2008 R2 must be up to date to work with drivers signed with SHA-2.
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