Magewell 11090 Mimolive and Sonoma

mimoLive
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I has been having a lot of Blackmagic capture devices troubles. Flickering mostly
Some of those has been addressed by Boinx team, but others definitely are from Blackmagic side, with zero support and intentions to solve it.

I was looking for an alternative device and I found Magewell 11090.

1.- Did someone of you guys have experience with this device and Mimolive?
2.- Sadly, looking for a flickering problem solution, I’m in Sonoma now, and I don’t know how to roll back to Monterey. The Magewell support says there are not Sonoma driver yet, but someone of you had tried Magewell devices and Sonoma with old drivers?

Best regards

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I am considering a Magewell SDI Capture card as well, but all my laptops are running Sonoma.

Magewell says February 2024 for an update, but that is too close to chance for my needs.

Are there still issues with BMD cards and Mimo?

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I think this is not about BM-ML issue… It is an overall BM driver issue.
The random flicker happens with all softwares…

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Well, I have the card, but sucks

Only show 30 fps, no matter what input resolution, and Mimolive lost frames also.

I guess it is a MAC OS driver problem, because other similar softwares have the same issue

EDIT: seems like Magewell Sonoma driver is the problem

I just test the card in my M1-PRO 16" laptop running Monterey and works beautiful

DAMN SONOMA!!

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Update :
I managed to roll back from Sonoma to Monterey in my Mac Studio, and the ProCaptureDriverForOSX_4247 driver works flawlessly

So, I don’t have Sonoma anymore and my issue is solved

Seems like the Magewell device is a LOT less resources demander in comparison with Blackmagic

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Thanks for letting us know. Interesting that Magewell uses less resources than Blackmagic. We do not use the Magewell API so their driver must convert everything to make it look like a USB video device to MacOS, which is also probably why it has problems with Sonoma as it needs to be implemented differently there. The Blackmagic SDK is providing us the data directly, so in theory there should be less processing involved.