[mythtv-users] MPEG4->MPEG4 transcode? (slightly OT)

[Steve Briggs]

"Preston Crow" <pc-mythtv05c at crowcastle.net> wrote:
> Most people, especially the developers, use the PVR-xxx cards that have
> built-in MPEG-2 encoders, so I wouldn't expect to see much work going in
> to improving transcoding with a MPEG-4 source.

Which has always puzzled me.   Given the advantages of MPEG4 and 
the fact that a software encoder card + fast CPU costs much less 
than a hardware encoder card + slow CPU,  why would one pay for the
hardware encoder?  I can see where it's a stand-alone front end
and a noisy CPU fan is an issue, but in general? 

Steve


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