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

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Oct 26 17:37:46 UTC 2007


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.

Cheers,
-- jra
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