Ripping DVDs, transferring video from cameras, or converting downloaded videos from various sources for Apple products can be a difficult and time consuming process. Now with a software update for the Turbo.264 hardware-based video encoder from Elgato Systems, Macintosh users now have a definitive best and fastest way to encode video for all of Apple’s latest products.
This small device simply plugs into any Intel or PowerPC based Mac with a USB port (USB 2 is highly recommended). All of the heavy processing normally done by your computer is offloaded onto the Turbo.264 encoder, resulting in much faster encoding and freeing up your Mac for other tasks.
The older and slower your Mac, the more significant the speed increase will be with this device. We found the Turbo.264 encoded video up to 20 times faster on a G4, but even on higher end Intel based Macs, encoding times were drastically improved with the Turbo.264.
The Elgato Turbo.264 goes for about $90 on Amazon.com, making it a very inexpensive way to bring new life to an old Mac as a video encoding workstation.
The new software for the Turbo.264 couldn’t be any easier to use. As with the earlier ...
What would your response be to this scenario: you’re watching television and you forget that it’s being distributed to you on the Internet. Who won? TV or the Web? James McQuivey covers television and media technologies for Forrester Research. He spoke with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the current state of ...
PodTech’s Jason Lopez and Kevin Edwards roamed the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show floor where it seems Apple rules–in certain product categories–without even being there. In this 18 minute podcast Kevin and Jason check out a few of the many products made for iPods/iPhones and talk about Apple at CES ...
Chris Yeh, CEO of USTREAM, tells Marketing Voices’ Jennifer Jones how marketers can reach new audiences with live video. Deeper branding occurs with the ability to interact with live TV for a greater level of engagement. Here, Yeh exclusively announces a new contest USTREAM has with Warner Brother records.
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The Apple WWDC 2007 keynote with Steve Jobs is this Monday, June 11 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to come to PodTech where, as like last year, you can start listening to the Apple WWDC Steve Jobs Keynote podcast before Steve Jobs finishes speaking. The ...
Apple’s iPhone has created quite a bit of hype in India since Steve Jobs unveiled it in January of this year. (India’s mobile phone market is growing by a few million subscribers every month.) I caught up with two techies — Thiyagarajan (Rajan) and Rajiv, who have their fingers on ...
Roxio, the company known for it’s CD and DVD burning software, has introduced a home video transcoding product called Crunch. I recently caught up with Vito Salvaggio, VP of product management for Roxio’s Mac products division, at the House of Shields in San Francisco. Vito shows how me ...
It’s more common than ever to use purpose-built hardware and software solutions, ( Xbox, firewalls and VPN appliances, Google Search appliance, etc.). John Yoon, VP of marketing, and Bill Harper, director of development at Control4, discuss the advantages to a home automation controller and
Platforms are validated as partners develop solutions. Control4 invited a number of their key partners to display and show their solutions at CES. The solutions enhance and extend the lighting, climate, audio/visual, and security benefits. From Somfy’s solutions to manage window coverings and lighting, to iPort’s ... Ultimately, consumers want to enjoy Internet video on their televisions as well as their computers, but most don’t want to string new wires through their homes. Apple TV answers this problem by using Wi-Fi. The Power Line networking, using the electrical wires already in your home, however, may ... Remember the “teleputer”? That’s the device that George Gilder predicted years ago. Now that we’ve had a look at Apple’s forthcoming iPhone, it looks like Gilder’s vision may come true. What will the combination of an iPhone and the planned Apple TV mean for consumers? Find out, with ... For a highly reliable and secure automated home, networking devices and systems is a core requirement. Eric Smith, a co-founder and CTO at Control4, talks with 3Com Founder Bob Metcalfe. Metcalfe has a well-established reputation as a gifted technologist, as “Mr. Ethernet” (here’s why), as a ... The iPhone and Apple TV weren’t the only interesting things at Macworld 2007. We ran into Jacob Rus who was demonstrating TextMate in Macromate’s booth. We, in PodTech’s development group, are big fans of TextMate, and we use it every day. Jacob explains why TextMate is the missing editor for ... It wasn’t highly anticipated. We all knew it. But if Apple’s new “Apple TV” appliance works as advertised, the company–now known simply as Apple and no longer Apple Computer–might have quite a juggernaut on its hands. With movie deals that include product from Walt Disney and Paramount, Jobs might be ...
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