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"Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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> "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > The Plextor Connectx with hardware DivX/MPEG4 encoding
> > looks interesting. I wish it were available as a pci card and
> > could transcode from files also.
>
> [...]
>
> Excuse me for butting in here:
> I'm guessing you meant `ConvertX' not `ConnectX'. But not sure I
> understand why a pci hookup would be better than USB 2. Would it
> move data much quicker?
Right I guess it's "ConvertX", M402 I think. I ran across a post by one
of the Plextor development guys. He was responding to someone's request
for an ability to transcode files on a hard drive through the box. His
position
was that they would have to make it a PCI card to implement such a feature.
A guess on my part would be that the full speed bi-directional operation
would
work better with the PCI bus interface provided to the PCI slots; than going
through the USB2 interface. I doubt that it is quicker in terms of a simple
capture, as the specs for the USB2 boxes often even allow higher bitrates
than
the equivalent PCI card. Don't know why that is the case, as both capture
and
encode prior to sending anything over either interface.
Luck;
Ken