Too Busy For Words - the PaulWay Blog

While hanging out on #mythtv-users on freenode.org, someone mentioned the Plextor ConvertX, a device to encode incoming video signals (from NTSC, presumably) into MPEG1, MPEG2 or MPEG4 (DivX). I immediately thought of the Elphel 333 camera - a LAN device that uses an FPGA to compress the incoming video into Ogg Theora format. The new model 333 can do 640x480 at 90 frames a second, thanks to a new, faster FPGA, DDR memory and larger buffers.

So I sent an email to Elphel asking them what they thought of making a USB device that encoded video to Ogg Theora. It could either operate off a PAL or NTSC signal, or also by sending it video across the USB bus - effectively making a compression offload device. I'm hoping this idea will be favourably viewed...