Uh?! I'd REALLY like to see a review on that thingie. Recoding is a major bummer for now. But $80 is still quite a few bucks... hm.

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hmm, I wonder what settings thing this will use for its h.264. you can do dvd's much faster than 5 hours with x264 if you turn all the advanced settings off....

i hope im wrong though :)

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That sounds pretty cool. But the reason it takes so long to encode video is because (good) encoders try to compress the file while getting the maximum quality for the lowest possible filesize.

So being able the encode in 20 minutes sounds great, but how large will the final video be? Say a good quality encoding of a 2 hour movie ends up being 450 MB using PSP Video 9. If it ends up twice that size using a device that only takes 20 minutes to encode it, not too practical. But the only way we'll know is if more info about this device is released.

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USB does not have the sustained data transfer rate for something like this to work. Even if there's a ton of DSPs jammed into a thumbdrive (not probable) the time it would take to send the 4 GB of date TO the device to be encoded and then to have the re-encoded data sent back OUT from the device itself would take a good 10 minutes on its own, removing the time it takes to re-encode the data.

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you should let the developers know about this Dragon. I don't think they know:)

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There is no way this thing does what it says it does.

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USB 2.0 has a pretty high transfer rate - more than enough for a 700-800MB movie. Ripping doesn't usually involve files that reach the 4GB capacity of DVD, after all.

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I recieved this item this morning, my first encoding process is currently going on my compaq nx7010 laptop (1.25GB DDR Ram)


This product needs to set up distribution to countries outside the U.S

But other than that, it encoded my Pure_Pwnage_112.avi (351mb - 46:08min file) in 12:42min

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