[mythtv-users] Re: No MPEG4 card from Hauppauge in the works

[Mark Henman]

A friend of mine just put a hikvision DS-4004H card in a box with 4 external
tuners.  It can capture from 4 external sources in mpeg4 / ogg-vorbis.  I'll see
if I can find out where he got it.

http://www.hikvision.com/en/products/

Mark

> Thats a pretty slick unit, however no good for my MythTV adventure..
>
> I wounder if theres a hardware based RAW or MPEG4 PCI based daughter 
> card that one could use for transencoding...
> 
>Mike
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> > Quoting david.blevins at visi.com:
> >
> > > I wonder if we couldn't give them a little encouragement to do so.  I
> know I
> > > would buy the card.
> > >
> > > Online petition of something?
> > That would require that someone has developed an MPEG4 hardware encoder
> chipset.
> >  Hauppauge is a board developer, not a semiconductor manufacturer.
> >
> > I don't believe that such a chipset exists yet.  Hardware MPEG4 decoders
> didn't
> > exist until the past year.
> >
>
> There must be one out there:
>   http://www.plextor.com/english/products/ConvertX2.htm
>
> -David
>