Encoding HDTV to Xvid

[Vernor]

So what kind of hardware is needed for this kind of thing ?

Are there any published benchmarks ?

 

[chocoruacal]

Doom9.org.-->Guides-->TV capture.

What you're asking is too complicated for a single thread. To get you started...hardware can be anything from a 500mhz comp to 2+ghz depending on whether the card uses software or hardware encoding/decoding. Have fun researching 🙂

 

[menads]

Forget about it - it can NOT be done realtime with general hardware.
Even a high end PC (3GHz P4) has barely enought speed to decode HDTV let alone to encode a 19Mbps stream.
There are consumer HDTV cards (OTA, Fusion III is supposed to support QAM in later fix of their Gold III card) that can decode and record to the hard drive real time but none of them supports XVid (or any other popular encoding codec) as far as I know. I am sure that there are editing systems that studios use to edit HDTV material but we are talking about some obscene prices here.

 

[UnklSnappy]

Does it have to be Xvid?
Here's an excellent guide/thread for encoding to WMV9. Also includes hardware recommendations. I've used this method myself and it works well. But it's still time consuming.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: UnklSnappy
Does it have to be Xvid?
Here's an excellent guide/thread for encoding to WMV9. Also includes hardware recommendations. I've used this method myself and it works well. But it's still time consuming.

That guide is good if you can quit your job to figure out how to shrink your TS\TP files.