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To: Ron Mayer who wrote (36162)	9/23/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

<<speeds well above 500 MHz and integrated L2 caches of up to 2 Mbytes in some cases. >> That's a-lot-a CPU. <Anyone out there willing to guess how far off software-encode is? I would think half baked MPEG1 encode would be a year or two with a new high end machine....then maybe 3 years for MPEG2 encode?? HQ Broadcast type...5-7 years? Were you thinking longer or shorter time frame?? Just guessing...but I think it boils down to how much you wanna spend on your PC/Workstation. Who knows what tricks will show up in a year or two though that could speed things along.