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Old 01-23-2002, 04:46 PM
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Hardware MPEG2 encoding
I'm wondering if I should buy a TV card with hardware encoder to use with snapstream. Could anyone tell me what difference there is when I record with TV card WITH and WITHOUT hardware MPEG2 encoder using snap stream?

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It makes no difference whatsoever. Snapstream doesn't use MPEG so it doesn't matter. It uses Windows Media which is mainly processor dependent.

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Old 01-24-2002, 08:59 AM
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Thanks for the response.

If that is the case, it must take a lot of space to record any TV.. do we have to use commercial software or hardware to encode MPEG2 or MPEG4 after the recording?

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Snapstream encodes and compresses to WMV (MPEG4) on the fly. It is VERY processor dependent and the files sizes are pretty good. If you record a show to MPEG-2 it will be much larger than an MPEG4 show. But you might gain quality with the larger file sizes.

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