On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:58:49PM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 05:57:58PM -0500, Nathan Lutchansky wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:47:45PM -0600, Josh Burks wrote: > > > * Only the MJPEG and MPEG4 compressed formats are currently supported. > > > > What format would you prefer? Hardware-based MPEG4 is the main selling > > point of the device, and it would seem to be the optimal compressed format > > for PVR systems at this time. If it makes a difference to you, MPEG1 and > > MPEG2 support will be in there by the end of the week with H.263+ support > > following shortly. > > Indeed, it is the point of the device. There seem to be folks here who > are keen to burn their recordings to DVD, perhaps that's why they are > so hot for MP2?
That seems so. The hardware does, in fact, have a special mode to restrict the parameters for producing DVD-compliant streams. But at 9.8 Mbit it doesn't seem to be the best choice for PVR-type systems. > This could be a popular product, though with the pvr-150mce down at > $65 it will be hard on the price question. Though the ease of setup for > USB will of course be a big plus. Certainly. Aside from the advantage of being able to encode MPEG4 in hardware in addition to MPEG1 and MPEG2, the USB connectivity provides for a much higher channel count per system, plus the ability to connect to hosts that don't have PCI ports. SFF desktops, laptops, low-end Macs, embedded systems, etc are all good candidates here. Personally I'd like to get the driver running on a Linksys NSLU2 or similar embedded Linux platform with on-board USB 2.0. Lots of possibilities for tiny MythTV backends, webcast servers, and other small-footprint video appliances running open-source software. -Nathan
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