Interesting Product (Hardware MPEG-4 Encoder)

[Omegadsl]

Details here:

http://www.plextor.com/english/products/ConvertX.html

Perhaps this would be a good product for Sage to support if turns out to be any good.

[Omegadsl]

Originally posted by EncoderHouse
If only i could get the tuners put on this card. I work for the manufacture. IEI.

http://www.ieiworld.com/ADvertise/sh...4200-main.html

Overview:
IVC-4200 is a video capture card designed for multi-channel applications. It includes 4 channels MPEG-4 hardware encoder to provide real-time VGA quality video capture for each channel.

Key Feature:
4 Channel MPEG 4 Hardware Video Encoder
Video quality up to VGA (Full D1) size at real time (30 fps) for each channel Programmable constant bit-rate control

if only i could convence them!!!

this would work too if only i could get the tuners put on.
ETX-DB-DVR1
ETX Baseboard with 4 Capture Engine
CF II, Dual LAN, Audio & D I/O

http://en.ieiworld.com/products/inde...productsID=977

If Sage were to control the channels through the IR200L (assuming they developed support the card), is the tuner really necessary? I've never seen that card before. It looks like a hefty piece of hardware .

[Narflex]

The tuners aren't required for Sage to be able to use it. It can use an external tuner like a cable box or satellite receiver that is controlled through infrared or serial.

That USB box from Plextor looks pretty cool. I hope they have WDM Drivers for it. I've been waiting for some low-cost full D1 MPEG-4 hardware to come out.

[jimbobuk]

nice.. looks good... how good the mpeg4 encoding was would be nice..

I'm a bit crap on my jargon but it can handle full frame PAL/NTSC.. 720x568 or whatever, like the PVR-250s can?

mpeg4 (divx) when transcoding is pretty good... getting a clean source to begin with would help... but i say transcoding is pretty good when you are trying to shrink the video to smaller .. usually much smaller than your mpeg2s are.... i dunno.. surely given a helluva bitrate... say 1/4 or 1/5 of dvd standard on the pvr (3.5gig/hour) would mean it would be very similar quality with those obvious space savings...

exciting.. be interested to hear how this goes...

[Xleon]

>> I've been waiting for some low-cost full D1 MPEG-4 hardware to come out

Have you not checked out the ProVideo website as they have had some MPEG4 encoder cards around for a while but I've not looked in to them in any detail.

[Narflex]

But they're not full D1 resolution, they're only 320x240 which isn't good enough.

[TroySKI]

Yuck... why no internal card option?

[jimbobuk]

is MPEG4 always going to suffer from those tiles (no matter how small) round edges.. even with a pumped up bitrate... it just seems much more visible than with mpeg2.. just from my quick tests with drdivx...