"MPEG Card"...Huh?

LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, Alaska Icrontian
edited February 2009 in Hardware
MPEG Card

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.

Comments

  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    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.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    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...
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