On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 08:55 -0500, Andy Walls wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 10:53 -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> I am > > >> looking to setup a mythtv box in the house - and I am stuck on > > >> satellite. The only way I can see to get hd content out of the > > >> receivers are hdmi and component. My understanding is that no hdmi > > >> capture cards work properly under linux (hours of google - is all I > > >> have to go on for this though). So that leaves component capture, and > > >> the leadtek pvr2100 would be the best bang for the buck (I think?). > > > > It is probably worth noting that component capture does not > > necessarily mean HD component capture. I suspect this card may very > > well only capture 480i/480p. > > > > Do you know definitively that it can capture in HD? > > Good point. I'm pretty sure a CX23418 will only ever be able to capture > standard resolution using component video in. Even if I could coax the > analog front end into an HD resolution configuration (doubtful), the > MPEG encoding engine is still expecting 720x576 as the max resolution > (PAL & SECAM). > > But component video for cx18 might still be a project I undertake > sometime. And here's my first stab at cx18 component video: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~awalls/cx18-pvr2100-component for both the Leadtek PVR2100 and DVR3100 H. It was a little easier than I had thought. Anyone with one of those boards with the component video hookup, please give it a test. Regards, Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
