[ale] Linux V4L Developer / Programming

[Charles Brian Quinn]

It would probably be from his own HD camera, not sure the input -- I
know there exists no way to take raw HD from anything like composite
-- but I'll bet he could send it over firewire, or something like
that.  He would definitely not be using OTA HD.

Yeah, shame about all the encryption on HD content on broadcasts.
They will have to pry my hacked DirecTV HD Tivo from my cold dead
hands....

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Richard Bronosky<Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
> What is his source for HD? If it is not OTA, things will get
> complicated fast. I spoke with an exec at Cox and was dismayed to find
> that they intend to roll out 5C encryption to all digital content. And
> he said it's not just them. Every cable company is going to do it
> slowly. Soon MSFT will be the only solution to viewing non-OTA
> televison on a computer.
>
> On 8/5/09, Charles Brian Quinn <me at seebq.com> wrote:
>> Hello ALEs,
>>
>> I just posted on the ale-jobs list about some Linux V4L developer /
>> programming help, but thought I'd just ask here if anyone has ever
>> done any v4l development or programming, or know any other resources I
>> should be looking at.
>>
>> Essentially my uncle (the one requesting the help) wants to overlay
>> text on near-real-time HD feeds.  I know there's some linux software
>> out there you could glue together.  Having built my own MythTV box a
>> while back, I know something like this is possible using several tools
>> piped together.
>>
>> Here's what I told him (my condensed notes):
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> Step 1: Linux PC with HDTV
>>
>> Get a little computer (cheap would be fine), drop linux on it (any
>> modern distribution would do), put in a pchdtv hd-5500 card
>> (http://pchdtv.com/) and then install the drivers and set it up.
>>
>> Step 2: Overlay the text
>>
>> Now you can use that to "record" digital video to disk, in mpeg
>> format, and then use some other tool (which I haven't found, but know
>> exists) to add or overlay text or video on top of it.  I know it's
>> possible because of all the work done on mythtv -- this is an
>> open-source DVR (similar to tivo) that has lots of on screen displays,
>> and it very easily can add things on top of video, real-time as it
>> comes in through a cable/coax or even OTA (over the air) HD
>> broadcasts.
>>
>> With all the video DJing software out there, it's got to be easy for a
>> linux hacker to put two tools together to make a down and dirty
>> interface.
>>
>> I also just found a neat tool:
>>
>> http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Yet-Another-V4L-Application-22129.shtml
>>
>> That looks like it simply can add text on top of most standard linux
>> video formats.  So if you were to combine that with a hardware card
>> that can create videos on disk from video feeds, you've got yourself
>> text on top of video.
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
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