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Tons of settings & relatively fast as H.264 encoders go. Does more than H.264 though as it also has all the features of their MPEG-1/2 encoder complete with TV tuner, capture engine (DirectShow), chapter cues etc.
No matter what encoder you use it's extremely helpful to have a display card with hardware H.264 decoding. ATI X1000 AVIVO series, latest NVIDIA G-Force 6/7, MB's with integrated nForce 6150 GPU's etc. Otherwise it takes tons of system resources to even play H.264 badly. Fat PCIe pipes also help.
I have 3 ATI X-series PCIe cards and they work very nicely for H.264 playback. Thing is they also can run ATI's free AVIVO Video Converter, which can encode H.264 among other things like DivX and 'normal' MPEG. It passes the encoding threads off to the GPU's programmable pixel shaders, which do it faster than the CPU.
Not as many settings as MC but faster.
Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 14 October 2006, 14:18.
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The nForce 6150 GPU I mentioned is integrated into many laptops including some by Dell and HP. I'd bet similarly equipped ATI integrated graphics also have H.264 acceleration, but I didn't look.
Lemme check & get back.
Update:
ATI has come out with an ATI Mobility version of their X1600 series GPU. It came out earlier this year with all the goodies including H.264 acceleration.
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