On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Michael Stearne wrote: > And record TV? Have you done any capturing? Can you capture without > dropping frames? On a C3? Doubtful. > Or, are there any v4l cards (that are cheap!) that do hardware > compression on the boards, to take the strain from the CPU? Depends on your definition of "cheap". Hauppauge's PVR250 has a street price of US$150 but can be found for $100 on sale. Linux support is currently lacking. Their older Kfir based card does have better support, but is also about $50 more expensive. The iCompression (now Conexant) people have another chip in the iVAC line: the CX23416. This particular chip is encode only and has only half the pins of the iTVC15. Based on nothing but my own speculation, boards based on this part would probably have a street price of $100, but as the chip has only just been announced, I doubt we'll see any product for a year. Again, documentation is lacking.
