Sweet new TV encoder (was: Alternatives to Comcast)

[Bill McGonigle]

On May 20, 2008, at 21:50, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> It takes in high definition component (ypbpr) video and encodes it in
> real-time to h.264, the spits it out via USB2 to your computer. In  
> other
> words, it completely bypasses any and all drm via the analog hole.  
> Might
> lose a bit of quality going from digital mpeg2 to analog to digital
> h.264, but hey, not too shabby...

Wow, this is so fantastic, it's exactly the bit of hardware I've been  
dreaming of (OK, ethernet would be better, but I can live with USB2)  
since it'll handle SD and HD.

Thanks for sharing - does it look like it'll be smooth to add to  
MythTV?  I sadly have a great-looking DVR running MythTV and a  
PVR-150 that won't work with the I2C controller on either of the  
motherboards (Asus, Intel) I've bought for the project. :(  Outboard  
solves the PC-(almost-a)-standard issues.

-Bill

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