<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:<br>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:17:58AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:<br>>> That's probably a safe bet. There are HD camcorders available today that<br>>> appear to have hardware encoding chips. These sell for under $2000
<br>>> retail, so how much could that chip cost?<br>><br>> It's at least an order of magnitude easier to scan right off the chips<br>> and encode to mpeg2 than it is to track an analog video signal and<br>
> break it back down; maybe 2 orders. Analog video capture cards for SD<br>> were $800-1500 in their heyday; firewire cards... 15 bucks.<br><br>But a firewire card wouldn't have to encode to mpeg2, as it's already in
<br>that form over firewire.<br><br>But you're right, I don't expect any $2000 HD encoders soon.</blockquote><div><br><br>I used to encode SD MJPEGs with my PIII back home, doing the same with HD and a core 2 duo shouldn't be any harder.
<br><br>-chris<br> </div><br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 416 0648<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>