[mythtv-users] Yes, I know there are no known consumer-level component capture cards. What do the professionals do?
Robert Kulagowski
bob at smalltime.com
Thu Mar 9 15:46:33 UTC 2006
Yeesh, that's a long subject line. I was asked by someone "Assuming
that money is no object, how could you capture component 1080i or 720p
output from a STB into an MPEG file, and can it be done in real time?"
Obviously there is professional equipment out there in use at television
stations and big A/V production houses. And since there are folks that
spend $50k for a home theater setup, I would think that there must be a
pro-sumer equivalent available. Does anyone know for a fact that you
can purchase widget Foo and connect it to widget Bar from ConHugeCo,
plug it into a linux system and go on from there? Googling shows a
bunch of messages that reiterate "it can't be done"; however there
appear to be cards for Macs and PC from http://www.ajavideo.com that at
least allow component input (but don't create real-time MPEG-2 streams)
and there are also component -> SDI converters.
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