[mythtv-users] HDMI capture card with linux drivers

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 00:29:15 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 4/15/2010 16:44, Yeechang Lee wrote:
>>
>> Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  says:
>>
>>>
>>> Their software provides realtime compression to mjpeg.
>>>
>>
>>  . . . which immediately makes the device a nonstarter unless and
>> until Nvidia sees fit to add MJPEG support to VDPAU. There's a reason
>> the PVR Companion, whose makers also planned to incorporate MJPEG
>> encoding into, never made it to the market.
>>
>
> Their software... meaning it has nothing to do with the hardware or the
> drivers.  Besides which, I don't see how VDPAU factors into any of this.
>  We're talking about difficulty in recording, while VDPAU exists for
> playback only.

And I think Yeechang meant that even if you can usefully record this
device's HD MJPEG stream, unless you have some hardware assistance
from the likes of vdpau, it's going to be a difficult task to get it
onto your screen.


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