Mpeg2 card or CCE interested, question, similar, search

andy

What should I use? I have been looking at Mpeg2 cards under $700 and I'm really not sure. I use CCE and the encoding time is good, but would it be any faster or better quality to use a semi-inexpensive mpeg2 card? I would be interested in recommendations in mpeg2 cards if that is the better route to go.

Faster, yes.  Higher quality - I don't know.

Would it be of similar quality to that of cce? What would be a good card to get?

search the forum(s) and find the thread asking a similar question, i posted a link to a MPEG-2 hardware and software comparison (done by the same guys who made bitrate viewer), they have the avi source available for download, and the mpv (m2v) from each encoder available for download too.

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One point to be aware of, a lot of harware encoding cards only encode via an input of some sort, and don't encode software files that already exist.  (which is what you want it for I guess)

Worth checking this feature out.

HomerJ

Quality is nowhere near as good as CCE unless you are planning to spend many thousands of dollars. Stick to CCE.

just talked with a professional editor. it seems that hardware encoders put out poor quality. at least the ones that aren't made out of unobtainium.

-fisix

Originally posted by fisix
just talked with a professional editor. it seems that hardware encoders put out poor quality. at least the ones that aren't made out of unobtainium.

-fisix easy2Bcheesy is a professional editor..!Now, to business:

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the advantage that CCE has over most hardware encoders is multipass VBR

i just grabbed the SDK for Canopus Amber, and noticed one entry:

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which could be interesting to play with

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While I know CCE is top notch, my DVCII at it's highest setting puts out 1:1 video.  At that high of a bitrate I can't do much with it, but it is still 1:1.  

Getting a 40 dollar TV card and caping at 720x480 with Huffyuv and encoding with CCE seems to be the better way to go....if I only knew that then.