The Gadget : Elgato ’s turbo.264HD video encoder , a USB dongle meant to be a riotous and easy mode to potentially quicken up picture transition to H.264 filing cabinet formatting for your iPhone / iPod / AppleTV .
The cost : $ 129.95
The Verdict : Elgato ’s turbo.264HD is a keen encoder for those who need to basically do a lot of video encoding and desire it done quickly . It ’s extremely intuitive , making it prompt and simple to utilize , and is also the fastest one we ’ve tried to particular date .
Using an episode of It ’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia ( which was 20.5 minute long and a 175 mebibyte AVI file ) as our guinea pig , we tested the turbo.264HD converter against older encryption program include iSquint and the previous version of turbo.264 .
Encoding times for an h.264 Indian file
From these results , iSquint ’s spiritual rebirth times seem to jump drastically depending on what platform it is converting for . But with turbo.264HD and it ’s previous interpretation , they were both consistent in their conversion — a couple of them only differing by 3 second , with Elgato ’s raise being consistently faster — up to 5 time as fast as iSquint in some cases — than the others . However , one thing you have to think with the turbo.264HD though is that you’re able to not apply the program unless you have the USB plugged in , squeeze you to apply something else ( iSquint ) if you do n’t have it on you . Also , the dongle only work out with its designated turbo.264HD software , rendering it useless when used with any other program and with any other diligence that has Quicktime exportation as well .
As for tone , I honestly can say that all the encoders produced pretty much the same type of telecasting when converted for the iPod : slightly grainy and blury like a icky , pirated television rip , but nothing to truly nitpick considering the sensitive it ’s for .
Before purchasing turbo.264HD , it would be smart to think about whether you have $ 130 Charles Frederick Worth of video you need encoded , or if you ’d rather expend more time encoding to preserve some money . Basically , what is worth more to you : fourth dimension or money ?
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