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

[Chris Ribe]

On 10/26/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:17:58AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> >> That's probably a safe bet. There are HD camcorders available today
> that
> >> appear to have hardware encoding chips. These sell for under $2000
> >> retail, so how much could that chip cost?
> >
> > It's at least an order of magnitude easier to scan right off the chips
> > and encode to mpeg2 than it is to track an analog video signal and
> > break it back down; maybe 2 orders.  Analog video capture cards for SD
> > were $800-1500 in their heyday; firewire cards... 15 bucks.
>
> But a firewire card wouldn't have to encode to mpeg2, as it's already in
> that form over firewire.
>
> But you're right, I don't expect any $2000 HD encoders soon.



I used to encode SD MJPEGs with my PIII back home, doing the same with HD
and a core 2 duo shouldn't be any harder.

-chris





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