[mythtv-users] Capture card with component video in?

[Justin Hornsby]

On 26/07/06, Justin Hornsby <justin.hornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you know that a good proportion of video decoders (the bit on
> tuner cards which digitises the video) these days have the capacity to
> take component or RGB inputs?  Of course they probably _can't_
> digitise anything above 720p (some even less I expect) but the
> difference in capture quality would be worth having all the same.  Yet
> all the tuner card manufacturers choose not to provide these kind of
> inputs - go figure.
>
> I'm amazed that nobody has messed about with this - in theory it'd be
> quite easy to modify a tuner card to provide the required input
> configuration and modify the driver slightly (to set the video
> decoder's registers accordingly).. but to date I've not been able to
> find any information about it having been done.
>

Oh and it'd also be quite easy to add SPDIF digital inputs to a PVR
card, armed with the driver source, the card's schematics and
datasheets :-)  But again, I can't find any evidence  that anyone has
even tried it.