I'll bet ten bucks it's just an ffmpeg GUI. When was the last time anyone wrote a transcoder that *wasn't*?
"'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.
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I'll bet ten bucks it's just an ffmpeg GUI. When was the last time anyone wrote a transcoder that *wasn't*?
"'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.