MPEG-1/2/4 recorders from KISS

[StormyKnight]

Just read a short paragraph of some upcoming machines?

Source http://www.doom9.org/

3/18 These days more and more standalone DVD players can handle MPEG-4 video and it looks like it won't be too long until recorders can handle MPEG-4 (recording obviously) as well. Danish manufacturer KISS has announced to release MPEG-1/2/4 recorders based on WIS Technologies' GO7000 encoder chip this summer.

[andw]

Real time Mpeg-4 encoding will be good to see on recorders.
At the moment, my Athlon XP 2400 can't achieve this, so the GO7000 encoder chip must be fairly powerful.

[davidf]

Real time Mpeg-4 encoding will be good to see on recorders.
At the moment, my Athlon XP 2400 can't achieve this, so the GO7000 encoder chip must be fairly powerful.

If you have 512 RAM you should be able to on single pass xvid maybe its the software you are using. have you tried Borg software's implementation of MPEG2AVI ?.

Also with Videolan I am successfully encoding the MPEG1 (video and audio)stream from the local cable in real time on a 2400+ XP.

[andw]

mmm, I was thinking DVD to AVI, I usually get around 18-22fps, which is pretty good compared with my old pc (9-12fps).
(I can get faster encode, but not with audio)
Anyway, an encoder chip doing real time Mpeg-4 compression is pretty good.
It should allow a lot more video, with much better quality to be recorded on one DVD.