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  • Mac mpeg encoding hardware?

    Posted by Dylan Tucker on June 11, 2007 at 7:36 pm

    Hello, I recently discovered that there are PCI cards for PC’s that handle MPEG2 encoding instead of the CPU and can encode up to 2 times realtime speed. For someone that is constantly hindered by sometimes epic encode times, this sounded like a must-get. However, I only own a Mac-mini and a macbook pro. Are there any equivalents for me?

    Thanks!

    Bill Stephan replied 18 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Bill Stephan

    June 11, 2007 at 9:18 pm

    I believe Optibase still makes a Mac encoder board, but most MPEG-2 encoder boards are full size boards that don’t fit into the smaller machines.

    Bill Stephan
    Senior Editor/DVD Author
    USA Studios
    New York City

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