Hi

I have an ATI Radeon VIVO card. The fact that I can capture video in mpeg2 format without much CPU use, makes me suspect that it has hardware mpeg2 encoder built in.

If that is the case then my question is, is there any software that could take advantage of this encoder for sake of conversion. I use different programs to convert many different video formats to Mpeg2 streams (mostly SVCDs). The encoding is very slow on the fastest computers (many hours for a single hour of video). It would be really cool if hardware based encoding could be used to reduce the time by several orders of magnitude.

Anybody has any ideas?

Cheers