Hauppauge Collossus
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2010-12-02, 11:40 PM
shs posted a message about a dual tuner HD capture device which could be a potential alternative to the HD-PVR. http://www.shspvr.com/smf/index.php?topic=12325.0 The post doesn't mention it but the ViXS chip is capable of AVC (h264)
Martin
2010-12-03, 12:44 AM
Hauppauge demo'd it at Cebit in Germany in August. It is very similar to the HDPVR, in that it produces H.264 .TS files. It captures standard definition, or 1080i/720p.
The "dual tuner" bit isnt correct. Its got no tuners - just a single capture path component or HDMI (non-hdcp) input. I've got one of them here.
2010-12-03, 01:32 AM
Ah sorry, wishful thinking on my part. I read about this further on SageTV forums and they are saying it can save without h264. Is that possible?
Martin
2010-12-03, 01:55 AM
Not that I've seen. I've only seen it able to encode to H.264. I could be wrong though.
People might just be reading chip specs and assuming the released product can do everything the chip is capable of. Thats often not the case though. The chip in the HVR22x0 chips were capable of a lot of stuff not exposted by the device (transcoding, other output muxing options etc). Also, the HDPVR chipset is capable of being used as a playback device, with H264 hardware decoder output via component video. Sometimes these features just make products too complicated, so are purposefully not made available in the released product.
2011-02-25, 05:12 PM
I'm interested in this mainly for capturing DD/DTS 5.1 from my Xbox/PS3 Games.
So that I can run it through a HRTF filter & change it to stereo simulated surround, and then pass it to my Essence ST. Would it be possible to bypass the encoding process, and just grab the captured audio? I'd love to use it's HDMI-in to capture 8-ch LPCM that uses the latest DD/DTS formats, namely; TrueHD, DTS-MA. But I doubt that there'll be a "HDCP hole" like there is in the Avermedia card... And even if there is, like the avermedia it'll prolly be limited to grabbing only 48kHz/2ch PCM/16-bit, right? Any advice greatly appreciated, thank-you.
2011-02-28, 02:36 PM
Can you view live TV on a NPVR client with this?
I know ATSC was a problem but this is a compressed format correct? |
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