ATSC (HDTV) Video Capture

[joepic]

I have reviewed this fourm and the Capture Card List at https://www.videohelp.com/capturecards.php?CaptureCard=&Submit=Search&searchconnection=A...&Search=Search. I see very little or no refrence to HDTV capture!

Should I be looking at some other web site to get up to speed on HDTV Video Capture (cards cost $200 - $400) as this forum seems to be for the bottom to middle end of the capture market and I need to look somewhere else for the HDTV high capture end?

There is a software program that will convert the .trp stream to a 1920x1080 MPEG2 file http://www.midwinter.com/~bcooley.

This program converts HDTV MPEG2 tansport stream files to standard MPEG2 video files playable (mostly) by media player, many software DVD player programs, and readable by video converter programs like FlaskMPEG and Vidomi.

ATSC MPEG2 transport stream files are the raw data sent to your Digital television from the broadcaster, and contain multiple mpeg video and audio streams which can be tuned by your digital tuner. These streams differ from standard MPEG2 files in that they encapsulate the standard MPEG2 stream data in small 188 byte packets that are easy to transmit and decode.

HDTVtoMPEG2 simply processes the .TS transport stream files, extracting the data from each of these 188 byte packets, and reconstructing a standard MPEG2 file from them.

I am looking for a "one step" process to convert (decomb etc) this video stream into .M2V and .MP2 or .AC3 files so that I can author with Maestro and make my own DVD-R's. Before you answer this question you need to understand that a little filtering needs to be done on the MPEG2 file.

I see no reference to the following HDTV video capture cards in this forum:

HiPix DTV-200 HDTV
http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/hipix.htm

MyHD MDP-100
http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/myhd.asp

HDTV PC Receiver/Recorder Card
http://www.pc-dtv.com/PCDTV-DigitalStreamHiDTVPro2.0PressRelease09-16-02.htm

WinTV-HD
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/products.htm#digital

Here is an excellent guide on

ATSC (HDTV) Video Capture 101 by SmC
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/atsc.shtml

[superblast]

Actually, AVSForum, which is mentioned in the "capture 101 by smc" link you posted is the best site I've seen so far on the discussion of ATSC capture and conversion.

[The village idiot]

Actually there has been a little talk about the MyHD MDP-100, but not too much yet.