Quicker Conversion for your iPod, PSP and Phone (with video)

[Epicurus8a]

ADS announced InstantVideo To-Go, a nifty little $79.95 widget that supercharges compression of video into that oh-so-sweet H.264 format. The company calls it the first hardware-based H.264 conversion device for PCs. This little USB key is a video transfer accelerator that lets you convert any video into that butta-smooth format specifically for playback on an iPod or PSP, and lets you accomplish that feat five times faster than real time.

So what this means is you can take a DVD's worth of video and crunch it down for 320x240 playback on your iPod or PSP in 20 minutes, something that can take five hours to do with software encoding. And this baby can do that with a slew of media formats, too, including MP4, MP3, AVI, WMV, MOV, RM, JPG, and TIFF.

http://www.adstech.com/products/RDX-160/intro/RDX-160_intro.asp?pid=RDX-160

http://uk.gizmodo.com/2006/11/20/#039594

[Epicurus8a]

FYI: I purchaed this gizmo for my 2.66MHz Dell with 1.5Gb ram.

InstantVideo To-Go w/ Arcsoft Media Converter 2 is twice as fast Videora iPod Converter and three times as fast as SUPER. It's also easier to use and produces better results, IMO.

You need one. Lives depend on it!

[drstew]

How does this compare to using one of the newer ATI video cards (1300, 1600, 1900) with Avivo, which is suppose to have hardware acceleration?

[Epicurus8a]

How does this compare to using one of the newer ATI video cards (1300, 1600, 1900) with Avivo, which is suppose to have hardware acceleration?

I'd be happy to test these video cards. Does anyone want to send them to me for free?