Any nice, cheap, mpg2 encoding only cards out there?

[thete]

Hi,

I looked at the capture cards section of the site, but all the cards there seem to be just for capturing the files from DV! I am interested in buying a cartd which will ONLY converta file on your hard drive, in much the same way as TMPGENC does (so uit will need to be able to cope with any codec that I have on my computer). But do ti at least in real time. Just I;'m sick of it taking over a day, just to encode a 3 hour weddign video! The quaility of the output needs to be quite good mind you, well the same as TMPGENC, but as I say, done in at least real time. I also need the ability to change the bitrate, so I can govern the file size, and maybe do VBR encoding, so the quaility is as goof as possible?

Thanks for your help!

[gmatov]

thete,
I don't understand the ?, and 40 other people must not, either.
You want a card to convert what is on your drive, or a card to capture in realtime to MPEG1 or 2, DVD, SVCD, DVD, whatever, to your drive?
What would be your input, as you say not a DV card? VHS?
Try this thread, as I don't want to type it all over again.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=558252#558252

Maybe it will help.

[thete]

Thanks for the link, and I am very sorry about being to unclear (had just woken up at the time)! I am looking for an encoder card that will only encode files already on the computer, juat as tmpegenc does! the output must be at least as good quality as tmpegenc is as well!

Thanks for the link, unfortunatley that is abotu capture cards, and I don;t want ti to encode as it captures, I am lookign for a card to encode the DV avi file after it;ls been rendered with Video Studio! So a card that will ontly encode files already on a computer is a must!

Thanks for your help, and look forward to more suggestions!

[BJ_M]

a software encoder such as main concept would be just as fast -- plus hardware encoders are designed (except in few cases (rare)) for data to be inputed from external sources ...

[gmatov]

BJ_M,
I'm glad you said that. I was going to but thought I'd look stupid, saying I don't think there is a card to take a file and operate on it. I don't know if you could even out put wih a video out to a cap card video in. If it's possible, probably overwhelm the CPU handling both media streams, simultaneously.

[Rickyblaze]

I thought the Vmagic card had the capability to encode from harddrive but at this time they are only PAL but are suppose to be out in august or sept with an NTSC version.