![]() Perhaps a specialized FPGA or other reconfigurable chip that can be updated and optimized instead of being stuck with the capabilities baked in when manufactured, as the chipset and GPU encoders are. What would make it have a longer useful life is making it upgradeable. This window of opportunity stands a chance of being open for quite a while, unlike the about 1.5 years (or less) that hardware MPEG2 encoders were relevant. ASUS is about to release an ultrabook with a single nVidia GTX 1080, which is really going upset that market - except for the ultimate power seekers who want a dual GTX 1080ti.īut for us poorer folks who can't drop a high 4 figure (or even 5 figure!) sum on a new rig, there's a market *right now* for a dedicated HEVC encoder device. Media Player Codec Pack Plus is a free HEVC/H. Those are usually bulky, heavy and require a big brick of an external power supply. Such a card should be considerably cheaper than buying the latest laptop with HEVC encoding in its chipset or having to buy an extremely expensive gaming laptop with the latest GPU. So, how about a PCIe card that does nothing but high quality, high speed HEVC encoding acceleration? If it could be fit onto an ExpressCard it would make a lot of otherwise quite powerful laptops into video editing systems able to render to HEVC on the fly. H.265 hardware encoding just recently being built into some chipsets and higher end GPUs, but it's not as good (at least not with default settings) as slow software encoders. H.264 takes a pretty hefty CPU just to hit real-time encoding with software, and hardware encoding for has been built into PC chipsets for a few years. PC computing power didn't take long to hit the point where faster than real-time encoding of MPEG2 with software was possible. ![]()
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