A USB-powered PC encoder that converts multi-channel video with colour text/graphics overlay into MPEG2/MPEG1 streams. Incorporating on-board hardware video / audio multiplexing, colour text and graphics overlay and dedicated-IC MPEG compression, USBOSDM2 offers many powerful and flexible features: 1. With multi-channel video s, USBOSDM2 allows 4 video channels to simultaneously appear on the output video frame, each to be independently properties; 2. Overlaying colour text and graphics on the video before MPEG compression, USBOSDM2 allows the user to define un-limited Text, Timer, Rectangle, Transparent Box and Graphics File overlay items at any location on the video frame: 3. Live Video Preview on PC is provided by a floating Video Window that can be arbitrarily resized and moved around on the screen, made into full-screen mode or minimized as an icon on the task-bar. The Video Window also has a Drop-down Menu offering many useful functions inc. start/stop/pause/resume recording and streaming, image grabbing, maximize/minimize window, etc. 4. Two TV Out Ports output the channel-mixed and text/graphics-overlaid video to TV or VCR in real-time:, making USBOSDM2 to function as a real-time video overlay device. Two stereo audio pass-through sockets are also available. 5. MPEG File Recording records high quality MPEG video with always lip-synched audio: at the default 8Mbps DVD-format recording setup, the recorded video can play back in visually indistinguishable result as the original . 6. USBOSDM2 can function as a MPEG video streaming server: Video Streaming can be started at any time independent of video recording status, both multi-cast and uni-cast UDP streaming are supported. Streamed video can be received by any MPEG client software. ***** USBOSDM2 Devices can run simultaneously on one PC under Windows 7/Vista/XP. Further information: Inventa Australia telephone 61-2-95186100, e-mail *****, http://*****