[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Nvidia video capture

[Bryan J. Smith]

David I S Mandala <davidm at them.com> wrote:
> If anyone is interested in hardware mpeg2 and mpeg4
> encoding you should check out the Plextor PX-M402U video
> encoder. Requires USB 2.0 but deos all the video encoding
> in hardware.

Yep, and they have released Linux software under the GPL. 
Never used it, and the USB 2.0 devices are $160.
The Happauge 150 has been around longer, and is cheaper.

But it's an interesting option none-the-less.  Does it really
do DivX in hardware in real-time?  Or is it doing MPEG-2
capture, and then you DivX off-line?  The codec would tell me
more (I'll find out).

> They also make a version with an internal TV tuner.

$62.99 gets you all that in the 150, just requires a PCI
slot.


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