> Even if a high-speed ATRAC chip is used as opposed to software ATRAC, I
> think the encoder would be better off at the PC end as this allows more
> utilisation of the limited bandwidth USB ports.
Well, I'll just give my standard response to this sort of argument -- USB
is designed for peripherals, not for media storage or transfer, IMHO. If
I'm going to be doing data storage or retrieval, I'd be using SCSI.
Honestly, making some kind of hardware-based solution makes the most sense,
but if you're trying to save bandwidth on an already-CPU-intensive bus (AFAIK,
USB is still essentially an interrupt-driven technology, causing CPU use every
time a packet travels the wire), offloading the encoding to an already-working
CPU might be a poor decision.
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:wq!,
/Andrew
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