v4l2 came out in 2001. At that point every TV tuner card supported full framerate capture at 768x576/720x480 for over >3 years already. Its only ~12MB/s and car

v4l2 came out in 2001. At that point every TV tuner card supported full framerate capture at 768x576/720x480 for over >3 years already. Its only ~12MB/s and cards supported bus mastering, the only problem was storage and CPU power for realtime encoding. https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Brooktree_Bt848 https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Brooktree_Bt848 https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bttv_devices_(bt848,_bt878) https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Bttv_devices_(bt848,_...