[FFmpeg-user] Looking for an HDMI/Component Capture Card

James Board jpboard2 at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 23 14:26:13 CEST 2013


Thanks for your replies.

Most people seem to think Black Magic Intensity Pro is the best choice for me (I only need the raw pixels).  I was assuming that I could then capture the pixels to a file with ffmpeg.  Is that not true?  Will ffmpeg work with this card right out of the box?

Jim



----- Original Message -----
From: Addison Higham <addisonj at gmail.com>
To: FFmpeg user questions <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org>
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Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-user] Looking for an HDMI/Component Capture Card

I am currently capturing off of HDMI with a Black Magic Intensity Pro (BM
Pro as I like to call it) on linux using this fancy little tool:
https://github.com/lu-zero/bmdtools

It took a bit of an effort to get going and had to mess with finding the
right version of libav and the black magic SDK. Also, you need to know your
input source resolution and format, otherwise it just fails. Through trial
and error I was able to get it to work. I just end up writing the data to a
pipe and then feeding it directly to ffmpeg.

Hope that helps


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Albert Scholtalbers <
compuvision.sr at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Black Magic has the name,
> >They're also pretty cheap, and if our correspondent just wants pixels in a
> file the drivers aren't too bad.
> > My only exposure to them has been via C# but from what I can see the COM
> interface is pretty similar to the native one.
> > You might not even need to involve ffmpeg.
> In my project we needed to record directly to h264, if you want
> uncompressed video it's probably a different story. But what is cheap HW
> worth if you spent hours to get it working?
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