Hetz Ben Hamo writes:
> Hi Ralph,
>
> Ralph Metzler wrote:
> >
> > Hetz Ben Hamo writes:
> > > Many will, but it really depends on the right price.
> > >
> > > Example - you can buy today ATI All in wonder 128 which have built in
> > > MPEG-2 encoding engine in (though I never heard about Linux drivers for
> > > it). The card sells (if I'm not mistaken) for about 100-150$ or less,
> > > and its got a good 2D display, not-so-bad 3D engine, and a TV
> > > tuner/recorder built in - so you'll have to think about a good price
> > > point.
> >
> > Can you point me to a page where it states that the ATI All in wonder 128
> > really can do realtime MPEG2 encoding?
>
> You can either look at the card's specs or look at the tom's hardware
> web site and see TV Tuner card comparison..
OK, I had a look at the pages.
While the ATI card seems to be able to handle almost the complete
MPEG2 decoding it looks like for encoding it only does some DCTs in
hardware and the rest is left to the CPU which has to be high
end (and has to run Windows).
When I was talking about cards with MPEG2 hardware encoding I meant full
picture (720x576) and full frame rate with no CPU usage (besides
handling the DMA of course).
Ralph
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