http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/ Engadget Comments for Elgato debuts Turbo.264 HD Software Edition, cuts price of hardware edition http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Handbrake comes to mind
Mac, Windows, and Linux - and free
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There's no way this thing out performs babadoom.]]>Jul 15th 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/
There's nothing wrong with appealing to a niche market; in many ways, you have far better chances than trying to appealing to everyone.]]>Jul 15th 2010 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Yeah that'll hold up in this slowing economy. ]]>Jul 15th 2010 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Just wait until they recall 2 million iPhone 4's.. what a garbage phone that is.. oh wait Engadget says 9/10.]]>Jul 15th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/LOL 30-40% for TV tuners, what a joke. Pretty sure Motorola owns that stat.]]>Jul 15th 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/
You're stupid. You're taking one issue - an antenna related issue that only affects a small population of iPhone 4 owners - and extrapolating that to mean the entire phone is "garbage".

How dumb do you have to be to do that? Obviously it didn't get a 9/10 because of the antenna. It got it for every OTHER reason that you are conveniently neglecting to mention. And this is despite the fact that the antenna on the iPhone 4 is actually better than antennas on previous iPhones and better than antennas on other phones too.

Just... stop being stupid.]]>Jul 15th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/It's worth mentioning that the dongle is compatible with QT and also greatly improved the streaming performance of Elgato's EyeTV app that my poor old '06 Macbook could never handle.]]>Jul 15th 2010 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/
Also note that this software does not offer the range of configuration and preview options that Handbrake does. Even video cropping becomes a matter of trial and error.]]>Jul 15th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/Jul 15th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/
Ya I was wondering that too - I'm not sure how it would be "far quicker than whatever method you're using now" (even assuming that method is software-only)]]>Jul 15th 2010 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/www. elgato. com/elgato/int/mainmenu/products/Turbo264HD/product2.en.html

It's only for H.264 AVCHD input to H.264 iPad compatible output, or straight to H.264 iPad compatible output. (whatever that means.... like what? iPad isn't capable of handing measly 1080 H.264 playback? lol)

In any case, it's pushing less than a 3x speed advantage IN HARDWARE. (Elgato Software will be slower.)

2. i7 @ six cores
www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-gulftown-scaling,2663-7.html
So what happens when you look at the last graph (Handbrake encoding from 1 to 6 cores active)?
Lol... i7 6-core is an encoding moster!

The i7 tested here is already far faster than in the iMac used in #1 above, so it'll be faster than the below figures when compared with Elgato. (vs. Elgato hardware - remember, Elgato software is slower...)

4:19 for 2 active cores, dropping to 1:50 with 6-cores. 2.4x faster when all 6 cores fully active vs. 2.

So, if you fudge, about the same either way: hardware Elgato or i7 6-core, you'll likely be running encodes just as fast. Latter, of course, lets you run everything faster.

3. Don't have $$$ Bank?
$200 or so for an AMD X6
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/amds-sixcore-phenom-ii-x6-1090t-1055t-reviewed/6
Or overclocked i5 will do just about the same as #2.

4. Wondering WHY Adobe Premiere CS5 went to NVIDIA GPU accelerated encoding?

videomaker.com/content/images/article/14661/pdf14661.pdf
nvidia.com/object/io_1257932071081.html
nero.com/enu/moveit-nvidia-cuda.html
mainconcept.com/fileadmin/user_upload/download/product_sheets/CUDA-Sheets_06-2010.pdf
corecodec.com/products/coreavc

Combos FASTER than a two quad-core CPU setup (yes, two physical CPUs) are possible. (YES, FASTER than #1-#3 above!)

Now why on earth bother with yet another external USB stick for H.264 encoding when you might as well just drop in a ~$200 GPU card? (and play Modern Warfare 2 nicely) Remember, the superior performance still occurs on slow CPU systems because the entire thing is off-loaded to the GPU for processing/encoding!

Drop 2+ GPU cards in, and well... hee, heee. you've got yourself a King Kong rendering farm =D

5. Nothing new, hardware technology wise.

Elgato is merely an H.264 encoding chip similar to that found in AVCHD camcorders packaged into a USB stick w/o camcorder lens or body.

Nothing new, software wise - esp. if you're cheap and looking for a free H.264 encoder.

Pretty much Nero Recode (assuming you bought a DVD writer with the free software included), Premiere/Vegas Video/etc (assuming you've already got a nice video editing program), and all these listed here:

www.videohelp.com/tools?toolsearch=&Submit=Search&convert=&s=109&orderby=Name&hits=50

can encode to H.264 in software today if you've got a coffee break.

eg. Nero Recode works for me - came with my DVD burner, has lots of customizable settings (encoding quality, frame size, rate, interlace, 1 or 2-pass, etc) - and chugs along to output PSP, iSomething, H.264, and MPEG-4 video formats in one program. ]]>Jul 15th 2010 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/elgato-debuts-turbo-264-hd-software-edition-cuts-price-of-hardw/
"'Course, it'll still convert videos for use on portable devices (or just shrink the files sizes for easier archiving) far quicker than whatever method you're using now"

Really, Engadget? How do you reckon it'll do that without a hardware encoder, which is what the USB stick from the hardware edition is? Unless they've actually written their own encoders which are somehow massively faster than the widely-used ones already out there (uh...ffmpeg), I don't see how it possibly can.]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:05PM