Recently im doing research about Hardware MPEG-4 Encode & Decode.
I found that Display Card now day also can be use in Encode also, but mostly display card din't have video input or called VIVO feature, so wanna ask have any ppl try use normal PCI video input capture card, then use the display card to hardware encode it? Because from i know is only can use file convert to file method at display card as hardware encode. Or may be i need to find USB or PCI Hardware MPEG-4 Capture device to encode it? like below model i found:

Aviosys DVD Plus 3210
Aviosys DVR Plus 3230
D-Link DUB-AV300
Darim MPEGator4
Dazzle Video Creator Platinum / DVC 170
FAST MovieMaker USB
H&B TX-100
ICP IVC-4200
LifeView FlyTV MCE Cardbus
LifeView TV Walker Ultra
Miglia AlchemyTV DVR
Miglia EvolutionTV
Plextor ConvertX PVR PX-TV402U
Plextor ConvertX PVR PX-TV402U MAC
Plextor ConvertX PX-M401U
Plextor ConvertX PX-M402U

Any ideal??

For Decode section, now day computer very powerful izzit still need Hardware Decoder to play MPEG-4???


More Resource
http://www.tomshardware.com/2002/06/21/at_last/
http://www.comprousa.com/New/en/product/h900/h900.html

http://www.comprousa.com/New/en/product/e800/e800.html

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/prods_pvr.html

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/P...or+Platinum.htm
http://www.pctuner.ru/page-al-dazzleplat.html




http://www.divx.com/company/press/press_detail.php?pr_id=127
http://www.micronasusa.com/homeusa/index.html

Some other chipset related:
Conexant
Philips
Sigmatel
WIS
and so on....................
ALi
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This post has been edited by Steamen: Jul 17 2007, 03:28 AM

the only card i have a is a soft-tv tuner. Damn, if I have an extra RM399, I'd hit Hauppage MCE 150 or better.

Compro H900 also not bad, with Hardware Encoder also

Hi there,
i am H900 user reporting in... may i ask you some question??
i am not able to record movie using software encode (Xvid)... error!!
any suggestions??

how abt ati's theater 650P?

I am using Hauppage PVR150 MCE (OEM version)
It is cheaper.

Compro H900 is using Conexant CX23418 10-bits single-chip MPEG-1/2 encoder with analog video/audio broadcast decoder, for MPEG-4 is need use software to encode, then have you computer install the codec properly?

ATI Theater 650 Series is High-Resolution Video Decoder with 12-bit ADC, only have Hardware MPEG-2 Encoder.
Here is the white paper
http://ati.amd.com/products/theater650pro/...0WhitePaper.pdf

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE is using Conexant CX23416 Chipset, is also only have Hardware MPEG-2 Encoder. The board hv 8MB SDRAM for cache buffer. For OEM version i not sure using what type of chipset.

Because MPEG-4 has so many profiles encoders tend to shy away from it, resulting in very little parts accelerating MP4 encoding through hardware.


Your best bet might be Intel's Penryn chip combined with DivX (It's not simple profile but it works most of the time and with Penryn's SSE4 it's ridiculously fast)