AJA Setup

Drivers

To obtain drivers just visit this page and download drivers for your card and platform directly without registration.

Linux

When you have downloaded the driver package, on Ubuntu run the following (for RHEL/CentOS, use rpm instead of dpkg):

unzip AJA-Software-Installer_Linux-*.zip
sudo dpkg -i aja*deb                 # (both packages need to be installed)

If some dependencies are not satisfied, run:

sudo apt-get install -f

macOS and Windows

Use the downloaded and extracted GUI installer and follow instructions in a usual way.

Firmware

In order to card to work correctly, it is needed to have a sufficiently new firmware. An indication that firmware needs to be updated may be a sentence similar to this in UltraGrid output:

## ERROR:  Cannot open:  Driver version 0 older than SDK version 14

In this case, run AJA Control Panel (usually located in /opt/aja/bin/controlpanel in Linux) and check the tab Firmwire for available updates.

Note: Even if the firmware update is not required because the device firmware is relatively new, it is still advisable doing the update if there is newer one. The newest firmware may contain additional features or bug fixes not present in an older one.