[pvrusb2] Looking for the next generation

[Mike Isely]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, roger wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 15:10 -0700, Steven Karp wrote:
> > Not really on topic, for which I apologize.  If someone can recommend a more 
> > appropriate place for this sort of question, please do!
> > 
> > Having just upgraded my satellite to add HD channels, I'd love to find a 
> > device like my beloved Hauppauge box that supports HD.  I'd prefer USB over 
> > PCI so I can swap it between two machines easily.  All of the devices I can 
> > find out there that say anything about HD are primarily tuners; some of them 
> > also have SVideo inputs.
> > 
> > Is there anything out there that will take an HDMI or Component input and 
> > produce output in some useable form (mpeg2, mpeg4, etc.)?  Bonus points if it 
> > costs less than 4 figures in US dollars
> 
> I posted something like this several months ago.  From the info I
> gathered, expect HDTV/Digital TV (ATSC) products to start hitting the
> market by 2008.
> 
> I too am a devoted fan of my pvrusb2... too make mention of the
> extremely stable pvrusb2 driver as well! ;-)
> 
> (Another good place to ask this question is on the #pvrusb2 freenode irc
> channel.)

I have to imagine that Hauppauge, the most well known player in the 
field of tv capture devices, is not sitting still on this either.

BTW, I know things have been quiet here.  But I am working on a major 
change to the way that the rendering pipeline is stopped / started that 
I am hoping will further stabilize the encoder.  I also now know 
additional information (thank you Mike Krufky) that breathes new life 
into the possibility of supporting uncompressed video output - but that 
is still much further out.  And there's added demand now to get this 
thing working with a DVB interface as well.  So lots of interesting 
stuff going on.

There's a fix coming for a kernel oops bug fix (found Friday night), for 
which I am going to release a new snapshot probably later today.

  -Mike


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