<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:18 AM, David George <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@thegeorges.us">david@thegeorges.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A lot of people have been asking about it, so I thought it best to just<br>
post a message to the list to let everyone know that we have stopped<br>
development of the HD component video capture device. We may still<br>
release all or part of it as a hobbyist project, but the hardware cost<br>
of materials was too high to make a competitive product. The device<br>
itself was based on an Arm processor with Analog video compression chips<br>
(required two of them for 1080i) and a TI video processing chip. We<br>
were also considering an Arm-based frontend using the same chips that<br>
would decompress the MJPEG2000 and output component/DVI/HDMI, but with<br>
the amount of MPEG2 and H264 material that just wasn't a good option.<br>
The final nail in the coffin came with the nVidia VDPAU release. Now<br>
that low-power machines will soon be able to decode H264 (in addition to<br>
MPEG2) it just no longer makes sense to develop this as a product.<br>
<br>
Thank you to everyone that showed interest. I am sorry we weren't able<br>
to produce a cost-effective product.</blockquote><div><br>I hate to hear this... I was really looking forward to a network-based component encoder... <br></div></div>