[mythtv-users] Capture cards

Rudy Zijlstra mythtv at edsons.demon.nl
Sat Jan 13 10:30:15 UTC 2007


Nick Rout wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:26:17 -0700
>Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
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>>As time goes on slow CPUs will become rarer, and I think we will  
>>start to see video cards that can do some sort of hardware MPEG-4  
>>playback. The satellite companies are going to move to MPEG-4  
>>eventually to save bandwidth, and the BBC HD tests are an MPEG-4  
>>variant.
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>Its their opportunity to get proprietary again. There are many more versions of mpeg4 than mpeg - by the way are we talking mpeg4 as in xvid and its cousins or mpeg4 as in h.264?
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H.264 is used for this.


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