"MPEG Card"...Huh?

[Leonardo]

MPEG Card (http://anchorage.craigslist.org/sys/1021440945.html)

Uh, yeah, sure, whatever he says. No really, is the seller blowing smoke? Is that an antiquated gimmick, or does one of those things really work? I don't recall ever hearing of one of those. Or this just what some people call a "TV card?"

For sale is one K-World MPEG Video card. It works in conjunction with your regular video card. It will add, television, radio and MPEG features such as 1, 2, and 3 & 4 Codecs. This card works great, and was used for video editing. It comes with a remote, antenna for radio, drivers and manuals. It will require a PCi slot to use it.

[airbornflght]

It's a tv tuner card with on-card hardware mpeg encoder. Which takes the load off of the processor. That is assuming it does have a hardware mpeg encoder. If it is software then the processor still does the encoding and decoding and the card is only a medium to bring analog sources in. A buddy here at the house has direcTv running into his computer through a tv tuner card and it's pretty neat. Free DVR.

[primesuspect]

mpeg hardware cards are good for video editors - they offload mpeg compression from the CPU/GPU, although some GPUs are probably better at this than this old mpeg card nowadays...