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MPEG encoder cards
Parameter MVision10-PCI MPEGatorPro Broadway2.5 Apollo2 MPEG Forge MPEG Fusion
Manufactor VisionTech Darim Data Translation, Inc. DV-Studio Optibase Optibase
Review   PC Magazine PC Magazine PC Magazine    
Standard MPEG-2 MPEG-1 MPEG-1 MPEG-1 MPEG-1/MPEG-2 MPEG-1/MPEG-2
Card PCI PCI PCI PCI 1 ISA+1 PCI 1 ISA+2 PCI
SDK yes yes ? ? yes yes
WinNT4.0/Win95 yes/yes yes/yes yes/yes ?/yes yes/yes yes/yes
List price US$3995 or US$3695 w/o audio US$1495 US$995  ? ? ?
Street price  ? ? ? US$900 US$ 12,995 US$26,995
Realtime Compression  yes yes yes yes yes yes
Two-Pass Mode [1]  ? yes yes yes  ? ?
Video standard  NTSC, PAL NTSC, PAL NTSC, PAL  NTSC, PAL NTSC, PAL NTSC, PAL
Inputs Composite, 
S-Video
Composite, 
S-Video
Composite, S-Video Composite,  
S-Video 
Digital Serial Component, Composite, component, S-Video Digital Serial Component, Composite, component, S-Video
Video Chipset VisionTech MVision10  Samsung VIDEOFLOW C-Cube CL 4110 Digital Semiconductor 21230 ? ?
Audio Chipset  Samsung VIDEOFLOW Texas Instruments MS320C31 Analog Devices DSP-2181 ? ?
MPEG-Playback  ? SW-Decoder  SW-Decoder (Microsoft ActiveMovie) HW-Decoder w/ optional decoder card  w/ optional decoder card
Video Output  ? no Composite, S-Video no  no no 
Resolutions 720 x 480 
720 x 576
160x120 
176x120 
176x144 
320x240 
352x240 
352x288
352x240 
320x240 
176x112 
160x112
SIF 
352x240 
352x288 
QSIF
176 x 120 
352 x 240 
352 x 288 
352 x 480 
352 x 576
176 x 120 
352 x 240 
352 x 240 
352 x 288 
352 x 480 
352 x 576 
720 x 480 
720 x 576
Data rates 1MBps - 16MBps  20 KBps - 3MBps 
12MBps (I-Frame AVI)
20 KBps - 400 KBps 
1.25MBps (I-Frame AVI)
224KBps 
1MBps - 3MBps 
300KBps - 10MBps 300KBps - 15MBps 
 Comments available from May 1998  MPEGator II with MPEG-2 compression in development.        


MPEG decoder cards
Parameter REALmagic NetStream 2
Manufactor Sigma Designs
Review Excite
Standard MPEG-1/2
Card PCI
SDK yes
WinNT4.0/Win95 yes/yes
List price US$379
Street price ?
Video Output In window and NTSC/PAL video output

[1]TwoPass-Mode: first capturing of AVI file, then MPEG compression
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