Affordable video capturing card

[Colin McGregor]

On 10/28/09, ted leslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:22:47 -0400
> Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> On 10/28/09, William Muriithi <william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > Hi pals,
>> >
>> > I am looking to buy a video card that should primary be optimized for
>> > video capturing, and not to worried at the moment how it does on
>> > display.  Ideally, should  support OSS as I would rather buy from
>> > vendors who are open source friendly.
>> >
>> > The card should have a S-video input as most of the data  that will be
>> > going to it is analogue. I have an extra PCI slot so, would be more
>> > interested on internal cards instead of USB based cards. I have done a
>> > bit of googling and I do not seem to be getting any good article, may
>> > be my key words are not that good as I think this should be well
>> > documented at this time.
>> >
>> > Would you mind sharing your experience if you have done something
>> > similar in the past?  Any information is appreciated, even caveat to
>> > look out for when going through the process.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > William
>>
>> My experience in video capture comes out of working with MythTV. When
>> it comes to open source friendly analog capture the gold standard is
>> the Hauppauge PVR series of PCI capture cards (the PVR-150, PVR-250,
>> PVR-350 and PVR-500). Each of the PVR card models has a slightly
>> different feature set, and there is some variation within each model
>> (some shipped with remote controls, etc...). I would recommend any of
>> above for analog capture. I have a PVR-150 and have been very happy
>> with it for capture off cable TV.
>>
>> Now the bad news, in the lead-up to analog TV shutdown the Federal
>> Communications Commission  in the US banned the sale of analog only
>> capture cards. This in turn meant that Hauppauge stopped production of
>> the PVR series. Basicly the only place you will find PVR cards for
>> sale is on the used market.
>>
>> There are some cards currently on the market, such as the Hauppauge
>> HVR series that can do HDTV and analog capture. Problem here is that
>> the open source HDTV side of these drivers get all the attention, and
>> the analog side of these cards ... well that tends to be problematic.
>
> i bought a hd-pvr and I noticed they are still selling,

The old PVR series (the model 150, 250, 350 and 500) have been dropped
as they could only deal with with analog TV (thus banned by the FCC in
the US). The (fairly) new Hauppauge HD-PVR can deal with digital
broadcasts, thus is allowed in the US. Your guess is as good as mine
as to how long the HD-PVR will be around, likely it will be as long as
both Hauppauge is around and the product is profitable for
Hauppauge...

> you sure they are cutting them, i might consider buying another,
> records 720p and 1080i very nice in linux, and of course subverts all that
> nasty copy protection, which oddly enough is fine to do in canada.
>
> tl
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Colin McGregor
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