[mythtv-users] has anyone tried using this to capture HD

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Wed Aug 4 18:44:08 UTC 2010


  On 8/4/2010 14:39, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 12:20:08 pm Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>    On 8/4/2010 14:03, Donald J. Organ IV wrote:
>>> http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/mxo2_family/mxo2_mini/
>> Why bother?  It's $450 for just the capture box, or $850 if you want the
>> hardware H264 encoder card.  The HDPVR retails for $200 and goes down
>> from there.
> It will capture HDMI, which the HDPVR won't do, so it might be useful to someone with extra money. I think it's still cheaper than the HD Fury.
>
> I'm not sure how it deals with HDCP (or doesn't).

It doesn't.  It will only be able to capture from unencrypted sources, 
which you are not going to find on any consumer electronics.  You're 
still back at a quarter the price for similar functionality from the 
Hauppauge product.


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