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Thing is I dont want to spend 500$, i have hdmi capture card but without hardware h264 encoder. I can record to huffyuv and then encode to h264 using MediaCoder but i would like to record directly to h264.
Unlike the MPEG era, there's no way to capture H.264 in software. And even in the MPEG days, software capture was terrible. You needed hardware encoding, or hybrid hardware encoding (ie, ATI AIW).
HDMI input is not cheap in resources, or in price.
Most use some sort of Hauppauge card to capture HDTV. I'm not sure of the input, however. I doubt the lower-cost cards have HDMI input.