[lug] mpeg hardware encoding

[Scott A. Herod]

Is mpeg an absolute requirement?  I've seen or heard mention of some
stuff that can do fast wavelet compression.  We can take this off-line
if you wish.

Scott

Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
> 
> Scott and Michael:
> Thank you for your postings.  Your responses made me realize that I should have
> been more specific.  I am trying to read videos from a MiniDV camera over a
> FireWire connection (IEEE 1394) and create MPEG videos.  All of the MPEG
> hardware encoders I have seen so far seem to be limited to a vertical resolution
> of around 240 lines.  The MiniDV standard offers around 400 lines, which I
> would/need to take advantage of.
> Apple offers a complete solution that even includes a DVD writer at a reasonable
> price but I wanted to see if there was a cheaper way of doing what I need to do.
>   Currently we can encode MPEG videos from AVI using Adobe Premier on WinNT.  It
> takes about 2 hours for 10 min of video on a PIII-600.  The Mac does it faster
> than real time at a cost of around $3200 (dual CPU) including everything or
> slightly slower than real time for $2500 (single CPU).
> 
> I thought a similar solution might be available for PCs.
> 
> It is great to have some graphics experts on this list!
> 
> Ferdinand
>