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Feb 28, 2008, 2:43 PM
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Re: Hauppauge HD PVR (A bit more info for those starved for it)
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> From: Yeechang Lee <ylee[at]pobox.com>
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> those starved for it)
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> Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara[at]gmail.com> says:
>> For those who can't wait for any little bit of info, here's a frame
>> dump from a HD PVR capture @ 1920x1080 and 9 Mbit-ish.
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>> http://www.fecitfacta.com/00000001.jpg
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>> I think it looks excellent.
>
> Agreed. A 9Mbps PBS 1080i stream (4GB/hour) is surely simpler to
> process than a 19.2Mbps 1080i stream (7.5-8GB/hour), however. Despite
> the stated 25Mbps limit of the hardware encoder, I certainly look
> forward to future examples at higher bitrates.
>
> That said, the news of the device's presence in the hands of ffmpeg
> developers and others certainly gives me hope that we'll see viable
> Linux (and, heck, maybe even MythTV) support from day one of
> availability. I'd be interested, despite having open FireWire ports,
> for the following reasons:
>
> * Smaller filesizes.[1]
> * No need to deal with the somewhat-problematic Linux FireWire stack.
> * No longer vulnerable to cable companies' decisions on FireWire
> access.
>
> I remain unsure of which way to go regarding a 1080i h.264-capable
> frontend, as no one yet (to my knowledge) has yet answered the
> question in the last paragraph of
> <URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/317259#317259>
> in the context of the internal player.
>
> [1] I hope someone is already mulling over a script that will automate
> the process of playing MPEG-2 recordings over component, capturing
> them via the Hauppauge device, and replacing the old with the new,
> smaller, MPEG-4 version. Heck, could the device perhaps generate the
> h.264 files directly from the recording files themselves? A sort of
> hardware transcode engine?
Thanks to the OP for posting, and to Yeechang for the above.
I am very happy to hear that devs in the Linux community have access to
this piece of hardware. I am definitely looking forward to buying two of
them - one to keep as a backup for the time after the content Nazis find a
way to bully the government into making them illegal (said only somewhat
tongue-in-cheek). Not only that, I feel that Hauppauge will a boatload of
these in the first wave...I bought some stock in the company. ;-)
Bob
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Re: Hauppauge HD PVR (A bit more info for those starved for it)
