That looks all very nice - But is there really hardware to be gotten at this point ? Is it a card you can just hook up a composit signal to and start serving / broadcasting/ recording with any old linux box ? The supposed manufacturer looks like just that and not anybody doing the distribution - who is going to sell those babys ? I want one :) cheers Tobias > At 01:01 AM 11/23/00 , you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >we released our first version of a GPLed Linux driver for a hardware > >MPEG2 encoder card. > >The card is based on the Kfir chip developed by Visiontech > >(http://www.visiontech-dml.com). > > > >The Kfir chip supports video encoding in ISO/IEC 13818-2 (MPEG-2) and > >ISO/IEC 11172-2 (MPEG-1), system Multiplexing in ISO/IEC 13818-1 > >(MPEG-2) and ISO/IEC 11172-1 (MPEG-1) in various stream types: > >Video ES, Audio PES, Video PES, Program Stream, and Transport Streams > >at variable and constant Bit rates. > > > >It supports low bit rate applications and the following resolutions: > > - Horizontal: 720, 640, 544, 480, 360, 320, 160 > > - Vertical: 112, 240, 480(NTSC), 144, 288, 576(PAL). > >Video Input: Selectable 8/10 bits CCIR 656 > >Direct DVB/SPI output > > > >Audio hardware encoding in MPEG Layer 1 and 2 is supported through an > >ADSP chip. The PLX9054 PCI bridge allows busmastering DMA of the > >encoded stream directly into main memory. > > > >The card is also based on a design by Visiontech and is manufacturered by > >BMK-Elektronik (http://www.bmk-electronics.de) in Germany. > > > >You can find more details about the card and the driver itself at: > > > >http://www.linuxtv.org/mpeg2/ > > > >There we also provide a form which allows you to get into contact with > >BMK for ordering details. The price for single cards is about 330 Euro. > > > > > >Ralph > > > > > > > >/------------------------------------------------------------------\ > >| Dr. Ralph J.K. Metzler | Convergence integrated media | > >| -------------------------|-------------------------------------- | > >| ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | http://www.convergence.de/ | > >\------------------------------------------------------------------/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Video4linux-list mailing list > >Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
