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H.264 accelerator
by michael (Michael) on Jun 26, 2007 at 4:30:55 am

Anyone know of a H.264 accelrator for the mac...?

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Re: H.264 accelerator
by zrb123 on Jun 26, 2007 at 5:07:01 am

http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvturbo&PHPSESSID=b2e0e2f10b38ad11fd34c457b748c59c

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Re: H.264 accelerator
by michael on Jun 26, 2007 at 5:26:31 am

yeah I have checked it out and looks promising...

except for the limited output presets, which dont seem
to have a setting for any real video profiles PAL or NTSC...

I need 720X576 or 1024X576 ...? any other ideas...?

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Re: H.264 accelerator
by Jerry Hofmann on Jun 26, 2007 at 5:57:22 am

Things speed up big time with an 8 core machine, and it's even faster with a cluster... Compressor 3 will just scream on an 8 core. It's faster than real time... if you cluster it it's even faster.

That's probably why there's not much choice out there for accelerators...

Jerry

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Re: H.264 accelerator
by Uli Plank on Jun 26, 2007 at 8:15:04 am

We tried the Elgato and didn't find it too impressive (as good as their other products are). When there's lots of motion it tends to get blocky, Compressor is better.

Regards,

Uli

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Re: H.264 accelerator
by michael on Jun 27, 2007 at 7:19:57 am

Thanks,

thing is I work on a laptop mainly a 2.16 core duo...maybe I should upgrade to a core 2 duo...Would make a big difference yeah?

Also does compressor 3 show significant encoding speeds over the last version?

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Re: H.264 accelerator
by Jerry Hofmann on Jun 29, 2007 at 5:08:43 pm

I don't think you'd see a dramatic difference upgrading to a slightly faster computer... but I'm seeing compressor 3 REALLY speed up on an 8 core when you setup all 8 processors to work at it in QMaster. .. a LOT faster than a dual.

Jerry

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