On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:46:59PM -0700, Erik Walthinsen wrote: > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Jon Pennington wrote: > > > You only need about 25MB/s or so to get video capture, depending on > > how large and fast your framerate is. You can get much, much lower if > > you have a card with MJPEG compression in hardware. If NT/2k > > compatibility weren't an issue, I'd heartily recommend a Pinnacle > > Studio DC10+, which can be had for well under $100US at retail. > > I understand that the DC10+ doesn't have a tuner. I'm working on a > background project of building a TiVo-like timeshifter, and by definition > a tuner is kindof a requirement. The G450 eTV would be ideal, since it > does MPEG-2 in hardware, but there are no drivers afaict. The G400-TV is > expensive and hard to find, and it also is a video card, which will turn > into a problem when I eventually move to a more cost-effective system with > onboard video. I understand what you're doing better, now. Yes, the DC10 is missing a tuner. Are you sure that MPEG-2 will provide you with a low enough data rate? Actually, I may revert to part of my original suggestion, and recommend a Bt8x8 PCI card. Between V4L-2's improved, erm, rubustness, with these chips, and applications such as NuppleVideo (I think that's what it's called), MPEG-4 may or may not be a viable solution. TiVo's use MPEG-4. > Can anyone suggest any other devices that might work for what I'm doing? > All I want is a PCI card with a TV tuner, MJPEG capture and display, > YUV overlay capabilities, with audio capture a major bonus. Grabbing line > 21 would be good as well. What's line 21? -- -=|JP|=- "I'm not unemployed, my career's just in a holding pattern" Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) dren@xxxxxxxxx | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | Proud Husband and Father _\_V
