[wellylug] Video Catpure device in Linux

[Donald Gordon]

On Tue, 31 May 2005 13:36:40 +1200, Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com> wrote:
> so normally it would take the audio and video from the tuner and combine 
> them together - currently under Linux I need a separate audio tuner?
> 
> The machine, if I do get one, it was going into was a
> Pentium III - 500mhz machine, (from /proc/cpuinfo - 448.058)
> 
> If the encoding is done in Software then his box will not be fast enough 
> to do real-time encoding will it? or does it do MPEG4 encoding 
> real-time, but 1 and 2 in software?

I think it's all in software.

If you want video encoding in hardware, get a hauppage PVR-150, which
does MPEG-2, and is supported by the drivers available from
http://www.ivtv.tv/

donald