[mpeg2] Re: kfir MPEG 2 Board

[torsten <torsten@inetw.net>]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:05:21 +0100
Christian Zoffoli <czoffoli@xmerlin.org> wrote:

> Hi to all.
> I plan to buy such board and i'm want to collect more infos about it.
> 
> Is this board capable to output high quality streams (comparable to 
> broadcast) ? ...Is it the only MPEG 2 board that works on Linux ?
> 

Output is comparable to input.  It is "Broadcast Quality."  It encodes
at the resolution of the input (NTSC or PAL).

There are more MPEG2 solutions available for Linux, see 
www.linuxmedialabs.com
http://linuxmedialabs.com/LML_products.php?category=0&PHPSESSID=93ab368a41d1f19ade7c78cb69045d91
MPEG compression PCI board: $250

If you have plenty of time, I would recommend looking at
MJPEG boards.  They are cheaper ($15 on ebay), have comparable
or better quality.  It can take a couple of hours to convert
an MJPEG stream to MPEG stream.

Torsten