[mythtv-users] HDMI capture card with linux drivers

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Apr 15 15:52:07 UTC 2010


On Thursday 15 April 2010 09:43:47 am Joel Donahue wrote:
> http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/
> 
> 
> "Intensity Pro is the world’s first HDMI and analog component, NTSC/PAL and
> s-video PCIe capture and playback card for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
> computers."
> 
> 
> Not sure what it would take to get this to work with Mythtv. Would need to
> get a HDCP stripper for the signal but from what I can tell it should be
> possible. $199 is fairly reasonable.
> 

The first thing you would need would be a LOT of storage. I think this device 
creates uncompressed video, difficult to deal with in a Myth type system. 
Compressing it on the fly in software would require a LOT of computing grunt.



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