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To: William T. Katz who wrote (48736)	3/4/2000 11:04:00 PM
From: Carnac	Respond to of 50808

There's no limit what an encoder could do. Look at all the features of a $100K broadcast encoder. Someday all that will fit into CE single chip encoder. An analogy: you can project what a CPU will do based on what main frames can do today. SSE2 (a.k.a. MMX-3) is the first time Intel got SIMD right.. many years later. For a fraction of the price of a 1.4 GHz Willamette, the dedicated video encoder will still produce better looking, smaller bitstreams... by far the most important feature. However, the PC software encoder can do complex things too difficult to program a dedicated video encoder to do. So if you want to be in the single chip video encoder business (and who in their right mind would want this?!?), you had better be either 1. incredibly cheap and integrated.. or 2. very programmable and powerful (or both.. haha!). -=Carnac=-