[mythtv-users] No MPEG4 card from Hauppauge in the works

[mmcconnell at uniserve.com]

Thats a pretty slick unit, however no good for my MythTV adventure..

I wounder if theres a hardware based RAW or MPEG4 PCI based daughter card that 
one could use for transencoding...

Mike

Quoting david.blevins at visi.com:

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> > Quoting david.blevins at visi.com:
> > 
> > > I wonder if we couldn't give them a little encouragement to do so.  I
> know I
> > > would buy the card.
> > > 
> > > Online petition of something?
> > That would require that someone has developed an MPEG4 hardware encoder
> chipset.
> >  Hauppauge is a board developer, not a semiconductor manufacturer.
> > 
> > I don't believe that such a chipset exists yet.  Hardware MPEG4 decoders
> didn't
> > exist until the past year.
> > 
> 
> There must be one out there:
>   http://www.plextor.com/english/products/ConvertX2.htm
> 
> -David
>