There are dozens of manufactures who make 'turn key' boxes that will do this.
Why reinvent the wheel? IOW, what's your time worth?

http://www.horita.com/
has the least expensive LTC/VITC reader/writers (that I know of).

You might also look to the music industry for 'TimeCode to MIDI' boxes.
Being mass produced they are cheaper, and you could use the PIC to
translate from MIDI baud rate to your required rate/protocol.

Mark Templeman wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Does anybody out there in PIC Land have any information about reading LTC Timecode using a PIC.
>
> I need to read LTC Timecode and output the result to an RS232 port set to 9600,8,N,1.
> The reader would only output the current time when requested via the serial port.
>
> Any pointers to information on the web or otherwise would be most appreciated
>
> Mark Templeman

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