Re: HD Capture Card (HDMI and Component) output raw pixels

Daniel Glöckner
2013-06-18T23:06:57Z

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 05:55:15PM -0300, Steve Cookson wrote:
> > I don't want to configure a RAID either, but if I purchase one SSD with
> 400 MB/sec write speeds, that might be good.
>
> Hmm... nice idea. Did you have any particular model in mind? If you had a
> link, I might be interested. I wouldn't know about sizing. I don't know how
> much space HD raw video takes up per hour, say.

That's easy. My current video mode is 24 bit 1920x1080 at 50 fps.
So there are 3*1920*1080*50 bytes per second or about 1.1TB per hour.
But you won't be able to capture all frames with that card. The single
lane PCIe 1.x bus will max out at 200~250MB/s.

Daniel