> > What I'm looking for is a similar box that is fast enough to do video, > > and can output to either a computer monitor and/or s-video. I've > > been thinking about what it would take to do that, and do it right, > > and it does look like a larger project than the PCI card version. > > I've been thinking about starting a requirements doc for such a box. > > A significant problem is that the feature list quickly explodes to > > the point that it is a full blown computer. Which means expense and > > noise. > > Heh... you're not going to do H.264 without a full-blown computer. > Theoretically, a hardware-accelerator could do the job on a slow > machine, there just aren't any 100% hardware H.264 decoders yet > (probably never will be... general purpose CPUs tend to catch-up).
Personally I don't need H.264 yet, but someone probably does, and it seems like a good thing to have on the list, for future-proofing. > You _can_ do ffmpeg I'm hoping to get *away* from ffmpeg, and use something that actually works instead. grump. > or xvid style MPEG4 with a Via mini-itx board and > specific graphics drivers. You could also do MPEG2 with something > like the MediaMVP > (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html) for which > there exists a replacement firmware which utilizes MythTV > (http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main). Looks like they are making some good progress. The MediaMVP output is SD only, not good for long term. It could be a nice short-to-medium term solution while we wait for prices of HD displays to come down, except I haven't seen anything about HD, so I assume it doesn't have enough power to input HD and scale it down to SD for output. A lot of the OTA shows are HD. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
