Hauppauge WinTV HD PVR (H.264) screenshot and pre-order link

[Brent]

Originally Posted by SHS

pre-order link is not ready

Ah man they're going to make us wait until midnight or something crazy aren't they.....

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by Brent

Ah man they're going to make us wait until midnight or something crazy aren't they.....

Good thing I live in Hawaii. Every once in a while the time zone thing can work to my advantage.

Aloha,
Mike

[SHS]

For you Brent YES hehe
It hard say when they have it done

[Brent]

Originally Posted by SHS

For you Brent YES hehe
It hard say when they have it done

Special treatment in this case means I'm on the short bus doesn't it.....

Seriously though thanks for keeping us up-to-date on this SHS. We appreciate it!

[jkf]

Originally Posted by SouthPaw

Hauppauge HD PVR model 1212

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/hd_pvr.html

The "Front and rear panel" diagram shows svideo and composite inputs hiding behind the remote control. I wonder if it can capture from those and the component inputs at the same time.

[Chriscic]

Has SageTV committed to supporting this device? I don't use SageTV right now, but if it supports this device in a robust way and one can control vs. the Sage extender, I may well go that route.

[Bandit]

Has Sage ever officially confirmed these are the devices they mentioned and if they are currently working on support for them?

[mickp]

Originally Posted by Addict

I'm curious if Sage will be able to release "their version " around a similar timeframe.

I'd like to "keep it in the family" and buy a version from Sage (that's likely immediately integrated) if they do, in fact, release it as hinted...

Have Sage said anything whatsoever about releasing their own version beyond;

Originally Posted by Narflex

I've got a question for you all....so *if* there *was* a USB device that could capture HD at 1080i and encode it into H.264 that worked with SageTV....what do you think a good name for it would be?

Maybe I missed another announcement from Sage re: this.

Also, has anyone considered the Blackmagic Intensity Pro HDTV card which is already running in Sage How To: Record 1080i HD Component from Any Source

I'm suprised there's not been more action on this thread.

Mick.

[bastafidli]

The system requirements list

Processor Requirements (minimum):
* Dual core CPU

I wonder if this is there just for playback or also for recording and if playback is handled by HD extender the processor requirement are actually much lower?

[bialio]

Check out all the Arcsoft software bundled with :

# Arcsoft “TotalMediaExtreme” for video capture, preview, playback, and authoring and burning your TV recordings onto a Blu-ray DVD compatible disc
# Arcsoft “TotalMedia Theater”, a video player so you can play back your TV recordings to your PC screen
# Arcsoft “MediaConverter” , to convert your HD recordings onto other formats

Seems like a bare bones (no software, remote, just what we need for SageTV goodness) is order. Or a Sage branded version....

btl.

[morikaweb]

Ok I got tired of waiting so I went to bed... Its morning now and there is still no pre-order link?

[Fluffdaddy]

Wow you want it bad

[morikaweb]

Originally Posted by Fluffdaddy

Wow you want it bad

I'll say, I'v had my CC beside my computer since I heard there was going to be a Pre-Order

[Chriscic]

Originally Posted by SouthPaw

The hcw_hd_pvr2_1080i_h264.ts file is 82.3 Mbytes (84361216 bytes) 125 seconds long. So for the 25 fps second it is 659 Kbytes per second. Not Bad 2.4 GBytes per hour. Do you know if 30 frames per second or 60 fields per second is an option?

So if this file would be 2.4GB/hour then, if my calculations are correct, it is being recorded at significantly less than the max 13.5Gb/sec capability. At max it should be about 6GB/hour.

So I agree, not bad, and you should be able to get a lot better out of this product.

[frontlinegeek]

Remember, this is H264, not MPEG2. MPEG2 would eat up to 8 GB per hour. I know from looking at my recording sizes from my firewire setup.

Theoretically, the H264 standards have it that the max quality MPEG2 files would now only be 4 GB per hour in H264. This is AWESOME and is also how it will be possible to store 2 hours (Or more) of HDTV on a dual layer DVD.

The funny thing is with 1 TB drives now about to drop below the $200 mark, what are we to do with all of this space!!! I mean, the SD content off of firewire is only 1.4 GB per hour so I can only imagine what that will drop to with H264. This means that unless you record EVERYTHING on TV, the average person should be able to build an HTPC server with only 250 GB for TV shows!!! That opens the opportunity for RAID 1 so as to avoid lost recordings from drive failure.

[g808]

Looks like Sage will officially support this. Not a shocker.
http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-04/...d-pvr-support/

[Kirby]

Here's an idea for those that have large mpeg-2 libraries like myself (over 6TB). Run the component/optical output of a HD Extender into one of these HD PVR's, and setup manual recordings to record it back into MPeg-4. I wonder how the quality of this would compare to encoding with software tools. It would surely be a lot faster (real time encoding!). Sound plausible?

[korben_dallas]

Originally Posted by g808

Looks like Sage will officially support this. Not a shocker.
http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-04/...d-pvr-support/

And I just heard back from multi-OS SageTV CEO, Mike Machado regarding their integration plans:

We’re working to support the HD PVR as soon as we can. We expect we’ll support it at or near launch.

Glad to finally have a confirmation.

I'm in for two..

But.. looks like it'll be time to do some upgrades: dual-core CPU and 256MB vid card required.


edit:

I'm in for two..

Hauppauge better be on the ball here and make sure at least two of these can work simultaneously on the same HTPC!

[Chriscic]

Originally Posted by Kirby

Here's an idea for those that have large mpeg-2 libraries like myself (over 6TB). Run the component/optical output of a HD Extender into one of these HD PVR's, and setup manual recordings to record it back into MPeg-4. I wonder how the quality of this would compare to encoding with software tools.

I would think a software re-encoder would do a better job than a process that converts compressed digital to analog and then back to compressed digital. Also seems like less trouble?

[Chriscic]

I just took a look at the clip again, this time on my RS1 pj instead of my 1024x768 LCD monitor.

It doesn't look that great... a lot of the finer details shimmer. Hopefully this is due to the modest bitrate it was recorded at.