<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Borne</b> <<a href="mailto:joe.borne@gmail.com">joe.borne@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Well, my posting about the PYRO AV device really did stimulate discussion. I'm glad to see that. <br><br>
Several people have contacted me off-list in order to offer help and options in creating the device to translate DVI/HDMI/Component video into a usable ieee1394/mpeg2 signal. I have also opened discussions with a couple of hardware vendors.
<br><br>In particular I intend to focus on the creation of an external box that will translate several HD formats. Specifically we are looking to create a device that can accept DVI, HDMI, and Component video formats and output them in VGA, Composite and ieee1394(via mpeg2). Only the ieee1394 output would be HD (as of now). This combination seems to represent the best, most marketable product. Obviously the market just to solve the MythTV STB problem is too small to persuade any vendor. So a device that translates into multiple outputs would appeal to the broadest range of consumers.
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<div>You call DVI, HDMI, and component video "formats" but they are really just transport mediums. In no particular order, they can carry mpeg-2 and analog signals in various resolutions and frame rates. What you're really talking about is a card that can decode mpeg-2 into analog and digitize and encode analog into mpeg-2, receive mpeg-2 and analog over a number of different connectors and output mpeg-2 and analog over a number of different connectors.
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<div>I won't comment on the feasibility of this except to say that that's a lot of connectors to put on a single card. Why do you even need the outputs at all? Let the graphics card deal with that.</div>
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<div>-Jerry</div></div>