Re: Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-17 Thread Steve Cookson
On 17/09/2013 12:38, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > Nope, the opposite. In order to compress the video you need to store > enough context to look for repetition. Ok, quite intuitive, once you know what to look for. > Yup. We've been through the exercise several times with various HD capture board

Re: Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-17 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Steve Cookson wrote: > On 16/09/2013 19:09, Devin Heitmueller wrote: >> 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. > > Ok, well I misunderstood that. And, in addition,

Re: Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-17 Thread Steve Cookson
On 16/09/2013 19:09, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > 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. Ok, well I misunderstood that. And, in addition, I also thought that hardware encoding *reduced* latency, some

Re: Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-16 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Steve Cookson 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

Canvassing for Linux support for Startech PEXHDCAP

2013-09-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi People, I just wrote an email to this group about the Hauppauge 01381. Really it was a fall-back choice. If I can't get anything else then that might be my only option left. But here is my preferred choice. The Startech PEXHDCAP. It costs about $100 here: http://www.amazon.com/StarTech