On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, torsten wrote: > www.linuxmedialabs.com > >http://linuxmedialabs.com/LML_products.php?category=0&PHPSESSID=93ab368a41d1f19ade7c78cb69045d91 > MPEG compression PCI board: $250
That card is only MPEG1, which means unacceptable (for most applications) video quality. > If you have plenty of time, I would recommend looking at > MJPEG boards. They are cheaper ($15 on ebay), have comparable > or better quality. It can take a couple of hours to convert > an MJPEG stream to MPEG stream. There are plenty of options if you don't want real-time MPEG2 encoding, including using DV over firewire, MJPEG, raw AVI, etc. The problem is the storage requirement and the time required to encode as MPEG2. If you are wanting to do a PVR application or live MPEG2 streaming there is really no other choice but to have a hardware MPEG2 encoder. Even for things like DVD authoring, the time required to encode to MPEG2 is prohibitive as well as the space requirement. -- John A. Tamplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770/436-5387 HOME 4116 Manson Ave 770/319-9811 FAX Smyrna, GA 30082-3723
