The Euresys Picolo H.264 cards are top-quality video acquisition and H.264 compression cards compatible with standard PAL or NTSC cameras. They are dedicated to high-end applications in the fields of video-surveillance and mobile video-surveillance. The Picolo H.264 series also targets entry-level applications in the field of machine vision such as quality control and production monitoring including in extreme industrial environments. The Picolo H.264 series features H.264 on-board compression. This compression standard offers high image quality on top of low bit rate and low storage requirement. Each video input simultaneously delivers an H.264 compressed and uncompressed video stream. The compressed video stream may be recorded or transmitted while the uncompressed one is typically used for local display or video analytics. Both streams are independently configurable. The Picolo H.264 series features one audio input line for each video input.

All Euresys cards are PCI bus mastering agents that directly store the acquired images into the PC physical memory without CPU involvement. The Euresys capture cards automatically recover the scatter-gather virtual memory mapping to present the data as a regular bitmap image in a user allocated memory buffer.