Gallery

Labelled photographs of every surface, port, and indicator on the Pengo HDMI Grabber. Click any image to view it full size.

The unit, top view

A small (85 × 65 mm), 91 g aluminium brick in a titanium-grey finish. The pengo wordmark sits centred on the top face. There is one status LED on the front edge, just below the seam.

Front face — microphone & headphone jacks

Left jack (with mic glyph)	Right jack (with headphones glyph)
3.5 mm TRS — microphone input (mono, mic level)	3.5 mm TRS — stereo headphone output

The microphone input is summed into the USB audio stream and the HDMI loop. The headphone output mirrors whatever audio is present in the active stream.

Back face — USB, HDMI input, HDMI loop output

Port	Function
SS↔ (USB-A 3.0, leftmost)	USB data + power to host. Use the included cable.
INPUT (centre, HDMI)	Source signal — connect your camera, console, PC.
LOOP OUT (right, HDMI)	Passthrough to a local 4K TV/monitor at full quality.

Annotated block diagram

This is the diagram from the Pengo v.9 user manual, showing every connection and the USB / HDMI / 3.5 mm paths.

Software interface (Windows)

On Windows the unit surfaces as a generic UVC webcam (Pengo HDMI Grabber) visible to PotPlayer, VLC, OBS, Zoom, etc. No vendor-specific GUI is required. On Linux, every parameter is controllable via v4l2-ctl / v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl=....

Marketing render

"Pengo HDMI to USB Grabber — Plug & Play." No drivers, no external power.

Bottom of unit

Bottom face — labels include the model number, regulatory marks, and the serial number. The serial is also reported via USB descriptors.

Underside port example

Detail of the rear port cluster. The USB-A jack is a true USB-A (not USB-C). To connect to a USB-C host, use a short passive USB-A-to-USB-C adapter at the computer end. Hubs in between can cause enumeration failures — see Troubleshooting →.

Spec sticker close-up

A consolidated view of the marketing sticker with all the headline numbers.

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