[mythtv-users] DV Recording via IEEE-1394 Firewire with MythTV

[Buddy Taylor]

If I understand this correctly, then another application would be to
capture over firewire using my Canopus analog/digital converter.

-buddy

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 08:47 -0800, Jon Eklund wrote:
>  On Saturday, March 05, 2005, at 04:08PM, Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org> wrote:
> 
> >As far as editing goes, that's an entirely different story.  Or maybe
> >not.  Once you've got video into myth, you can cut with the commercial
> >editor, but as far as full editing goes, that's probably suited to a
> >full-blown plugin.  (Which, now that I think about it, would be pretty
> >cool...)
> 
> The big application I see for DV-input support isn't camcorder-capture or editing, but to support component->DV dongles for HD input.  I haven't yet found a dongle that does YPrPb->MPEG2ts, but YPrPb->DV seems pretty common, and it seems they could come in awfully handy for HD cable boxes that don't want to cough up digital outputs.  
> 
> Granted, software-compressing HD-DV would still be a bitch and a half, but it'd be better than nothing. 
> 
> Comments?  Am I missing something?
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