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Originally Posted by frenzz
Interesting...
http://www.gocyberlink.com/eng/press...iew.jsp?id=886
CyberLink Corp., a leading developer in providing integrated solutions for the Digital Home, announced today the development of an MPEG-2 software encoder plug-in for the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE) and its upcoming Update Rollup 2 version. This plug-in drastically reduces costs for tuner card manufacturers by avoiding reliance on hardware chipsets when recording TV content with MPEG-2 video and audio quality.
So - a new encoder on the blocks... interested to see this one.
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I think I would still prefer to use dedicated MPEG2 encoders on analog capture boards rather than pushing it to the CPU, they run cooler, and extra tuners don't stress the CPU. I don't know if I would like to have a dual core CPU hammering away with the encoding for a couple of tuners, while trying to watch something else.
When I first started reading this I thought it was an alternative to the Sonic encoder for burning DVDs and I would warmly welcome that, the Sonic one chokes a bit too easily on some formats, but I see this as a bit of sideways step or backwards step... moving away from software encoding was a big recommendation with MCE 2005.
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