http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/ Engadget Comments for Windows 7 Media Center gets component HD capture support http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 11th 2010 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 14th 2010 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/
You remote control a DTV H23 with two USB->Serial dongles plus a null modem cable/adaptor in between. The H23 is finicky about what dongles it works with so you will have to be careful about what you buy.

It's not nearly as simple/easy/standardized as it should be.]]>Jun 14th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 11th 2010 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/
I'm currently in the process of reviewing this product for another web site and its default recording format is for the PS3 (M2TS) if you use the software that comes with it instead of Windows Media Center.

To say "said analog capture device ... outputs MPEG4" in and of itself is an incorrect statement. The output format is not determined by the device itself but rather by whatever software you're using to do the capturing.]]>Jun 11th 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/
M2TS is a container while MPEG4 is a codec. And I'm pretty sure that in the case of the PS3 it is outputting an M2TS file that contains an MPEG4 stream.]]>Jun 11th 2010 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/
that's subjectable at best :) IMHO it has been available on the better software since first release of the device :)]]>Jun 11th 2010 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 11th 2010 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/
No matter what it stands for, I assure you it is capable of containing MPEG4. I have a few M2TS files with MPEG4 in them.]]>Jun 13th 2010 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/
The Hauppauge 1212 outputs h264 in an MPEG2 container.

You will need a fast CPU or a good GPU to play back the HD stuff.

Those of us who aren't MCE users have already been through all this. '-p]]>Jun 14th 2010 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/
The whole idea of taking what is originally transmitted in digital, outputting from the source in analog (DA) and then capturing it to something (AD) is serious 20th century.]]>Jun 11th 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/The problem with that is you will not be get the originally transmitted in digital it be Uncompressed HD video unencrypted content and will require some hefty hard drive space and CPU support for software some encoding, however, with multiple drives striped in a fast RAID. This proposition has the potential for making uncompressed HD capture a fairly complicated and resource intensive procedure for day-to-day use not hour-to-hour use.
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That's if you use a actually TV or a PC LCD. I use an actual 24" PC Monitor which just happens to have as many inputs as a LCD TV does along with a powered USB 2.0 hub.

For me this is the only way to get Direct TV HD into my Media Center PC. Other options exist for Cable TV which we don't have and after pricing out how much it would cost to replace everybody else's Direct TV box with an Extender (likely a Xbox 360 Arcade) and build a Centralized Server with Ceton's oft delayed Cable Card tuner, it could cost much much less just to change my box to the HD Direct TV box and use the PVR as a tuner..
]]>Jun 14th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 11th 2010 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 11th 2010 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/The Video it self is AVCHD = H.264/AVC/MPEG-4
Ho by the way default recording format is TS unless you change it in TotalMedia Extreme to PS3 or XBox then that will be default recording format.]]>Jun 11th 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/hello!, the ps3 plays mpeg4!]]>Jun 12th 2010 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 13th 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 12th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/videorecorder/]]>Jun 12th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 13th 2010 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 14th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/
Each it attached to it's own combination of TV & HD receiver.

The main "backend" is somewhere else. It "owns" an HDHR.

Hopefully if this sort of tech gets more commonplace, there will be less likelihood of this particular "analog hole" being plugged.]]>Jun 14th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4939&Itemid=1]]>Jun 14th 2010 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/windows-7-media-center-gets-component-hd-capture-support/Jun 17th 2010 2:05PM