iphone-scene.com— Elgato announced a new hardware for mac that helps you to encode your movies for your iPod, Apple TV or the upcoming iPhone.
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>> Um, specs/profiles/levels of said device?Irrelevant from what it looks like. From some of the German sites it looks like any application which uses QuickTime for encoding will be able to automatically take advantage of this.
I honestly just use FFMPEG for my encoding, options are what I need them to be, and it's faster than anything I use on my PC. The only issue I have with it is that my media server doesn't like x.264 encoded AVI's and FFMPEG doesn't want to transcode them for me. For that, I use TMPEGENC on my PC.Anyone wanting to do an iPod friendly encode using FFMPEG or QT can use 640X352 encoding with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Then crank the bit rate up. I usually do my stuff at 1500-1700 kbps per second and it looks better than anything EZTV releases.
This is pretty simple. Here's a device that's going to sell for about $135 right? It's USB and encodes h.264 via hardware. For some of us paying $135 is trivial if it provides pretty much any level of acceleration with high quality, ease of use and reliability.Like any specialized product, this isn't for everyone, but for those of us doing a lot of batch h.264 encoding, this could be a really great tool to have.
"Too bad its USB still. USB is a processor intensive task."The real question is how this thing is implemented. If it's like a flash drive, it could live on its own; write the video to encode to the Flash chip, run it through whatever ARM9-with-encoder chip they've got on board, write back to system RAM or to the flash chip. It's fairly self contained, the software doesn't take a rocket scientist to write, and it's fast.
I see no point. It's USB so any transfers on or off the stick will choke the computer anyway, and for me at least Handbrake only uses about 50% of my available CPU power.
This is just my belief from what good bit I know about Apple / H264 encoding tech, but you must have been either:1) doing this on some ungodly 8core MacPro that came out recentlyOR2) like the other person earlier said, you are using ffmpeg, which is INCREDIBLY faster (and I NEVER use due to significiant image degradationOR3) your definition of movie is like an Aqua Team episodeOR4) you're lying (and no, i don't think you're lying)Either way, something smells weird about a whole 100-150 minute move being ripped in 20 minutes. Very weird.
wo1verineApr 2, 2007
>> Um, specs/profiles/levels of said device?Irrelevant from what it looks like. From some of the German sites it looks like any application which uses QuickTime for encoding will be able to automatically take advantage of this.
dvddesignApr 2, 2007
I honestly just use FFMPEG for my encoding, options are what I need them to be, and it's faster than anything I use on my PC. The only issue I have with it is that my media server doesn't like x.264 encoded AVI's and FFMPEG doesn't want to transcode them for me. For that, I use TMPEGENC on my PC.Anyone wanting to do an iPod friendly encode using FFMPEG or QT can use 640X352 encoding with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Then crank the bit rate up. I usually do my stuff at 1500-1700 kbps per second and it looks better than anything EZTV releases.
macslutApr 2, 2007
This is pretty simple. Here's a device that's going to sell for about $135 right? It's USB and encodes h.264 via hardware. For some of us paying $135 is trivial if it provides pretty much any level of acceleration with high quality, ease of use and reliability.Like any specialized product, this isn't for everyone, but for those of us doing a lot of batch h.264 encoding, this could be a really great tool to have.
geminitojanusApr 3, 2007
"Too bad its USB still. USB is a processor intensive task."The real question is how this thing is implemented. If it's like a flash drive, it could live on its own; write the video to encode to the Flash chip, run it through whatever ARM9-with-encoder chip they've got on board, write back to system RAM or to the flash chip. It's fairly self contained, the software doesn't take a rocket scientist to write, and it's fast.
svpirateApr 3, 2007
I see no point. It's USB so any transfers on or off the stick will choke the computer anyway, and for me at least Handbrake only uses about 50% of my available CPU power.
3vnoApr 4, 2007
handbrake has problems ripping copy protected dvds.
nsresponderApr 6, 2007
That's the same device. El Gato is private-labelling it.-jcr
atticus8May 26, 2007
This is just my belief from what good bit I know about Apple / H264 encoding tech, but you must have been either:1) doing this on some ungodly 8core MacPro that came out recentlyOR2) like the other person earlier said, you are using ffmpeg, which is INCREDIBLY faster (and I NEVER use due to significiant image degradationOR3) your definition of movie is like an Aqua Team episodeOR4) you're lying (and no, i don't think you're lying)Either way, something smells weird about a whole 100-150 minute move being ripped in 20 minutes. Very weird.
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svtuitionMay 3, 2009
please tell me the best software H.264 encoder for Mac then?