Elgato announces turbo.264, USB stick H.264 encoder

According to the folks over at iPhone-Scene, Elgato, makers of Mac based TV tuners and the EyeTV PVR software, has announced the turbo.264 USB H.264 hardware encoder. When plugged into a Mac, this device will allow any application that uses QuickTime to export H.264 video two to four times faster than before. Of course, H.264 is the video codec favored by Apple for the iPod, the Apple TV, the forthcoming iPhone, as well as Sony's PSP and other video playing devices.

Apparently, Elgato "hopes to release the stick at the end of April 2007 for 99 Euros" (~$132). Unfortunately, there is no mention of this product yet on Elgato's main site, but a few more detail are available at iPhone-Scene.

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Dennis

Um, #11. If the content is starting on your machine, how is this not of benefit to anyone with an iPod, iPhone, PSP, AppleTV, and any PMP that has the juice to play H.264? Unless you're sour because you have DOWNLOADED everything in XviD and aren't willing to open up your AppleTV to add Perian.

It would be awesome if the encoding process could be scaled, four sticks through a USB 2.0 hub for queuing up a list of jobs. Certainly would make one of my work tasks muuuuch easier.

April 03 2007 at 4:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Unfortunately, for the most part, this product is there to make up for the fact that AppleTV is too limited in CODEC choices. I can see it being nice for the video editing people though, it's probably a lot more efficient use of their computer to off-load it.

April 03 2007 at 4:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

EWI

It is _not_ a hoax: http://blogs.sun.com/seapegasus/entry/turbo_quicktime_encoding

April 03 2007 at 3:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gordy

Not a hoax. ADS has a similar product.

April 03 2007 at 1:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Antony Shen

I agree with Thomas Bonk, it seems like a hoax to me.

April 03 2007 at 12:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Thomas Bonk

I read about this thing last week on a German Apple related news seite (http://www.macnews.de/news/98679.html). IMHO this is a hoax...

April 03 2007 at 11:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark Studdock

that's neat - i'd prefer it built in though... plus I want to spend money on other elgato products... but I shouldn't

April 03 2007 at 1:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tckob

hmmm....so does this shine any light on the apple rumor that all macs would get H.264 hardware encoders/decoders???

April 02 2007 at 10:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kiltbear

HA, trying to run H.264 video on my old 12" iBook was the final straw that got me to give up on that puppy. Oh, yeah, and the fact that it was a G3... have a Black MB Core 1 Duo now.

I can see hanging this off my G5 iMac to allow that to do encoding at a reasonable rate.

April 02 2007 at 9:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kenny Ye

Interesting product with reasonable price.

April 02 2007 at 9:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply