[mythtv-users] cheap ($250) HD component video capture..

[Victor Perez]

On 10/26/07, Preston Crow <pc-mythtv07a at crowcastle.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 10:31 -0400, Alex Halovanic wrote:
> > This device has come up several times in this list already, and the
> > showstopper is that it captures uncompressed HD video, which would be
> > nearly a terabyte an hour.
>
> And considering that Intel has demonstrated compressing HDTV in real
> time with a Core 2 Duo (using some sort of wavelet encoding, if I recall
> correctly) down to 40GB/hour or so, it's not unreasonable to think that
> we could get some real-time compression that gets the size down to
> something manageable.
>
> My prediction is that a year from now, we'll have a workable HD
> component video capture solution for Myth, either with hardware like
> this and an all-software solution, or new hardware with some built-in
> compression.

I wonder if we can use the power of some new GPU or add a PS3 cell
processor to one of these cards for live compression.