Online G450E Vs Radeon comparisons?

[rchapoteau]

Is there any site that gives a comparison between the G450E and the new Ati radeon as far as video capture goes? thanx

[Dr Mordrid]

From the reports I'm getting the Radeon leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to capturing. It apparently falls short when capturing full frames without drops.

As for the G450 eTV it (and the G400 Marvel) provides a raw YUY2 capture mode that can be used to encode MPEG, HuffYUV, MJPeg or even DivX on the fly given a fast CPU. The Matrox cards have always had an advantage in doing this kind of thing. So have the Hauppage cards.

Dr. Mordrid

[rchapoteau]

Can the G450E encode Mpeg 2 on the fly as well or you still have to use the transcode utility like you do with the G400? Thanx

Rishard

[Dr Mordrid]

The primary capture mode of the Marvel G450 eTV's PC-VCR utility is MPEG-2. The secondary capture mode is RGB, but this is of questionable utility compared to the YUY2 mode available from programs like AVI_IO. Using this you can capture to other compression formats like PICVideo MJPeg, DivX, MS MPEG-4, HuffYUV (very useful) and..and..and....

Using the included VideoStuio4 editor's capture functions you can capture either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2.

Dr. Mordrid



[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 25 November 2000).]

[rchapoteau]

WOW!!! How about an Athlon? Would an equivalent speed work? I believe that I read that capture for the radeon works better with an athlon then with a P3. Thanx again.

[Dr Mordrid]

If I were setting up I'd go with an Athlon 1.1ghz. That way you have performance overkill, which I'm always in favor of, at not much more in cost. The T'birds are a pure out-and-out bargain when it comes to performance/buck.

It also will enhance the performance of other software compressors.

Dr. Mordrid

[syf3r]

am i correct that the G450DH can output to two monitors, while the G450eTV must have a tv as its second output...? other than this, does anyone know of the major differences between the two? how well would the video-capture or pc-vcr functions run on a dual PIII-450..?

-syf3r.