Elgato Turbo.264 User Reviews July 9th, 2007 | by Jason Tomczak
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Average user rating from 2 users |
Elgato turbo.264 - a users perspective
by Mark Wise on Aug 16th, 2007 at 8:43 PM:
Okay....I bought the turbo because around half my MP4 movies failed to appear on my AppleTV, though iTunes on my old mac mini had no problem with them. And half meant a 'lot' of time re-encoding....
For starters, the Turbo.264 is faster then doing it without. No question. However, as always there are drawbacks. If the file fails to convert (for whatever reason) Turbo.264 stops. Completely. And whatever files you had in your queue sit and wait for user intervention. Not good for overnight stints of conversions.
Also, whilst I could run another conversion program (VisualHub) at the same time that doesn't use the elgato hardware to convert, and it had no effect on Turbo's conversion speed, simply copying files from my machine across a 100mbps network had enormous impact. Infact, the Turbo.264 became an absolute snail, performing at even slower speeds then VisualHub. Why this simple file movement would have such an impact is one for the engineers to answer.
Overall....worth buying, but not the absolute perfect product I'd hoped for.
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It's what I need so far...
by CBI on Jan 27th, 2009 at 10:54 PM: