[mythtv-users] HD Capture support from Component

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Dec 1 04:46:46 UTC 2007


On 11/30/2007 03:43 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> Of course if the card is just a capture card then you would
> have to encode the component video in real time, or store a LOT of
> information, something even the fastest general purpose computers would
> have a hard time doing. It would probably also push the disk I/O of
> consumer grade equipment pretty hard.

Well, assuming you could do the colorspace conversion in real-time (to
12-bit color), you'd only need 278GiB/hr and disk space is cheap.  :)

OK.  Really, I think Yeechang Lee is the only one with enough storage to
record at 278GiB/hr.

Mike


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