Card for capturing HD Component Signal

[peez]

For a christmas event in my company we need live streaming of HD video material.
We have a camera with HD component outputs. My way would be to capture this and directly stream it with VLC to the network.
Unfortunately I can't find very much HD component capture cards in the net.
Does anyone here have some experience with this?

[edDV]

What camera?

Live encoding from component may take hardware.

What format are you streaming to?
What bit rate?

Quick component to h.264 consumer level hardware solution is the Hauppauge HD PVR.

[peez]

It's some Sony HDV 1080i camera with only Firewire (not sure if live) and component output.

The encoding unfortunately has to be done in MPEG-2 because the receiving software doesn't understand anything different. I just saw that VLC's max bitrate is 8mbit.

I'm open for all suggestions for a different streaming server (only condition is to deliver mpeg2, ts and multicast)

[Bjs]

Capture card

AVerTV CaptureHD

It will depend if vlc can connect to the device

[edDV]

It's some Sony HDV 1080i camera with only Firewire (not sure if live) and component output.

The encoding unfortunately has to be done in MPEG-2 because the receiving software doesn't understand anything different. I just saw that VLC's max bitrate is 8mbit.

I'm open for all suggestions for a different streaming server (only condition is to deliver mpeg2, ts and multicast)

HDV is MPeg2 at 25Mb/s and is usually available as a live stream over Firewire.

Why is your network limited to 8 Mb/s MPeg2? That won't be HD.