[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun like device for analog?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Fri May 14 15:02:31 UTC 2010


On Friday 14 May 2010 08:57:27 am Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> What is VC-1 and when might I run into it?  And how much bus bandwidth
> does it need to carry it to a video card, post-decoding (i.e. if your
> VDPAU card cannot handle it)?

VC-1 is yet another codec, originally developed by Microsloth. It's part of 
the Blu-Ray standard, so you might encounter it with some BR rips, though most 
that I have seen are h264.

I don't have any real tech data on it, but as far as bandwidth I'd assume it's 
close to h264.


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