[mythtv-users] Component input

Asher freedenizen at gmail.com
Tue Jun 19 03:37:08 UTC 2007


On 6/18/07, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/19/07, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A guy on the SiliconDust forum pointed me at this box:
> >
> >  http://www.snappymultimedia.com/products_specification_hd_gold.htm
> >
> > It has COMPONENT inputs, and streams the resulting mpeg2/mpeg4 stream
> > to the computer via ethernet.  It's max resolution is 720x480, but the
> > result should be higher quality than using an s-video input.  Unclear
> > if that is 480i or 480p.  $129.
> >
> > Unfortunately, they do not list linux drivers.
>
>
> Should it need drivers for any OS since you're not hooking the box up to the computer directly?  Seems like this is the component equiv of an HDHR.

definitely needs drivers:
Driver on the PC represents the HAVA device as "Virtual" WDM TV Tuner
device, fully compatible with Windows Media Center

The protocol might be easily hackable, but I don't think it would work
out of the box


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