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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Subject: Re: [video] My Current Plan 
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Amancio Hasty writes:
 > I think that we are talking about $400 for an mpeg 1 encoder/decoder plus
 > access to a PCI audio dsp 8)
 > 
 > The decoding part is not too much of a problem as demonstrated by MTV 
 > however the encoding part is still a problem to do in software.
 > 
What kind of quality you get for that $$? Since I'm in the impression
that decent realtime quality will set you off something like $2000...

Pete