Re: MPEG-1 Codecs (was:viable workabout)

Andrew Palfreyman (palf@netcom.com)
Fri, 02 Oct 1998 01:05:38 -0700

>Chris O'Leary wrote:
>I have to chime in an say that you should check out MPEG Power
>Professional from http://www.heuris.com if you don't want to worry about
>bad frames at the beginning of a stream, need to support frame rates
>like 24 FPS and 29.97 FPS, and need the best possible image quality.

Jordi Joaquim i Recort replied:
I'm sure about it!! I know Heuris (I was at your booth in NAB) but heuris
is 3500 USD and M-PACK is just around 250 USD!!
If I can get CDROM productions around 10000 USD budgets I will be able to
buy expensive SWs!

If you want an inexpensive realtime MPEG-1 encoder (from camcorder, TV, VCR, etc.), such items are now available (Adaptec's VideOh!, for example, announced this week, or FutureTel's Video Sphinx Pro). Since both of these products come bundled with software that accomplishes, among other things, frame-accurate MPEG-editing, I beg to correct Chris's remark about the non-editability of MPEG.

Andrew Palfreyman
Senior Engineer,
FutureTel Inc.