[mythtv-users] Yes, I know there are no known consumer-level component capture cards. What do the professionals do?

[Jerry Rubinow]

On 3/9/06, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/9/06, Robert Kulagowski <bob at smalltime.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Here's some hardware/software that looks like it does realtime
> conversion between many formats.  Windows-only though:
>
> http://www.canopus.com/products/EDIUSNXforHDV/hardware.php

And here's a company that has an open source, linux-based, hd
capture/playback system based on those Aja cards you mentioned:

http://www.lmahd.com/

It's not clear whether it real-time compresses the input stream.