On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Craig Treleaven <<a href="mailto:ctreleaven@cogeco.ca">ctreleaven@cogeco.ca</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Good quality H.264 is usually done in two<br>
passes and even high end PC's take several times live to give a<br>
tightly compressed, good quality result.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Dedicated chips are often an order of magnitude faster at a specific task than a general purpose CPU.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
They say their $250 device encodes in real time.</blockquote><div> <br>HD Camcorders do, right? They're not $250, but they're also not just an encoder.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
They've promised a lot and I hope they can deliver. But I'll be<br>
skeptical until there are credible reports in from the field.<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>We'll have to wait and see. But I don't see anything they've announced as being technically impossible.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>