[mythtv-users] HD Capture support from Component

Charles H. Chapman ccmail at bellsouth.net
Sat Dec 1 11:40:22 UTC 2007


On 11/30/2007 03:43 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
 > Of course if the card is just a capture card then you would
 > have to encode the component video in real time, or store a LOT of
 > information, something even the fastest general purpose computers
 > would have a hard time doing. It would probably also push the
 > disk I/O of consumer grade equipment pretty hard.

Even if it becomes technologically and financially feasible to capture 
analog HD, I think there would be a very noticeable degradation in 
picture quality from the original to the point where it would look like 
widescreen SD video.

Chuck


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