Matrox card with H.264 encoder CompressHD for PC and Mac

The specialized processor CompressHD PCIe x1 card accelerates the H.264 video compression (up to 50 Mbps) on Blu-ray, the Web or mobile devices to high-end PCs significantly - according to Matrox, for instance, the encoding of a 20-minute videos for Blu-ray compared with an 8-CPU Mac Pro in less than a quarter of the time. The PC integrates CompressHD in Adobe Media Encoder, the Mac version integrates into Apple's Compressor. The price for CompressHD PC / Mac comes with Matrox 449 euros or $ 495 given - the map is available for PCs in the summer of 2009, the Mac version in May. Supplement: The Matrox hardware encoding processor also supports the following encoding Options: Baseline and Main Profile Encoding, Entropy Encoding CABAC, CAVLC Entropy encoding for mobile devices, scaling with high quality de-interlacing, color space conversions (HD after SD, SD to HD, RGB to YUV), GOP settings, bitrate setting of 100 Kbps up to 50 Mbps