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

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Thu Jan 12 19:10:33 UTC 2006


Steve Briggs wrote:

>"Preston Crow" <pc-mythtv05c at crowcastle.net> wrote:
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>>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.
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>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? 
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Compared to my software cards, the hardware cards capture in much higher 
quality. 

Kevin


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