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At 02:11 PM 5/22/2001 -0500, Bill Nickless wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Tim Ward of NWU mentioned vBrick on another
email list. They make self-contained boxes that have Ethernets and
NTSC jacks on them, which do MPEG-2 encoding and
decoding.</blockquote><br>
Pretty cool. Price??<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>Remind me: what's the problem with converting
to mpeg-2? Is it the encode problem (expensive) or the fact that
mpeg-2 decode is more expensive than h.261 decode</blockquote><br>
Price and availability of robust encoders for one. There are latency
issues (need to be able to tune the encoder to not do the prediction
mechansim that requires a second of buffering to decode) as well; there's
not a widely available MPEG2 over RTP library that I know of as
well.<br>
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WinTV + H261 might not be the best, but you can't yet beat the price and
reliability.<br>
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--bob</html>