CineForm HDMI Recorder Concept Posted

[Bill Strehl]

Originally Posted by David Newman

Seem it has the same speeds as the dual core atom CPU I mentioned in the quoted text.

What it does have is a PCI card slot which theoretically could accept a Black Magic Intensity card which back in 2009 the Atom did not seem to have.

[Ben Denham]

Just wondering has the Gopro acquisition of cineform provided the necessary hardware partner for a Gopro Cineform HDMI recorder to be made?

[David Newman]

Now in a bigger company, I also can't really discuss the possibilty of future products.

[Ben Denham]

Of course. l look forward to seeing what you guys might come up with.

[Bill Strehl]

Originally Posted by David Newman

I've commented on the Atom spec's before in this long thread. Over 12-months ago 1.6Ghz dual Atom would encode 1080p at 16-17fps, with 533MHz FSB. The memory bus is faster now and clocks up a bit, but otherwise that haven't change much in a while. The missing feature to Atom setup is a single PCI-Express lane, so we can feed HDMI in without a big hardware effort. If as can get to 20fps with a PCI-E lane, we can do 24p/30i through SSD buffering -- it is really close.

I wonder if the upcoming Intel NUC might be a successful candidate:
AnandTech - Inside Intel's Next Unit of Computing (DC3217BY)

It uses 1.8GHz CPU with DDR3 memory.

The DC3217BY version has a thunderbolt port.

I wonder anymore if it is worth the hassle of a standalone recorder which requires tethering as opposed to transcoding to the Cineform codec after capture. Anyone care to comment?