On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:37:39PM -0500, Byron Poland wrote: > > One other question. Will the hardware support hardware mpeg4/mpeg2 > > encoding from sources other than the external inputs? I.e. could I use it > > to encode streams originating from the computer rather from the tuner > > and/or composite in? If the hardware supports, does the driver support > > that, or could it? > > I can answer this one.. the answer is yes. This device has composite > and S video inputs, that are supported with the linux driver. I have > both the non-tuner and the tuner version, and just installed the > driver last thursday on my laptop, and it had to of been one of the > easiest thrid party drivers to get going ever. and with the sample > app I was able to record live tv right off the bat. I can post a > short video clip online of the mpeg4 capture from my hotel room's > cable line.
I suspect this user, in asking if it supported output from the computer rather than the composite in, was wondering if the encoder could be used on data streams, ie. send mpeg2 or other data out the USB and the chip transcodes it to mpeg4. This seems a bit obscure, but for those who have an mpeg-2 card or raw capture card with mjpeg, and a slow CPU, hardware transcode would be useful. Hell, even on a fast machine transcode still takes quite a bit of CPU.
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