On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Steve Cookson <it@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here is the spec: > > http://www.startech.com/AV/Converters/Video/PCI-Express-HD-Video-Capture-Card-1080p-HDMI-DVI-VGA-Component~PEXHDCAP#tchspcs > > But the main spec points (for me at least) are > > - It's based on the Mstar MST3367CMK chip as are many similar cards, > - It's PCIe connection > - It has inputs of: > --- Component Video (YPbPr) > --- DVI-I (plus a vga adaptor) > --- HDMI > --- Stereo Audio > - Maximum Digital Resolution: 1080p30 > - TV input resolution: 1080i/p, 720p, 576i/p, 480i/p > - PC input resolution: 1920x1080, 1440x900, 1280x1024, 1280x960, 1280x720, > 1024x768, 800x600 > - MPEG4/H.264 hardware compression. To be clear, this card is a *raw* capture card. It does not have any hardware compression for H.264. It's done entirely in software. Aside from the mstar video decoder (for which there is no public documentation), you would also need a driver for the saa7160 chip, which there have been various half-baked drivers floating around but nothing upstream, and none of them currently support HD capture (AFAIK). As always, a driver *can* be written, but it would be a rather large project (probably several weeks of an engineer working full time on it, assuming the engineer has experience in this area). In this case it's worse because a significant amount of reverse engineering would be required. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
