Leadtek WinFast HD Transcoding Card PxVC1100 Pictures

[Apoptosis]

I just got one of these in today and wanted to share the pictures and some details with you guys. The PxVC1100 is a HD Transcoding Card that is equipped a Toshiba SpursEngine BXA32110 Processor for handling encoding tasks. It features a single x1 PCIe connector as well.

According to Leadtek, PxVC1100 High performance MPEG-2/H.264 transcoding card can handle following Tasks:
1. Faster Transcoding and Encoding on Video
2. Support inter-transcoding between H.264 and MPEG-2
3. Support Up convert From SD Video / DVD to Full HD Resolution Video
4. Support Authoring, and burn on DVD/AVCHD

Leadtek PxVC1100 will be provided following Software Bundle: Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus, DVD MovieFactory 5 and WinDVD 8

WinFast PxVC1100, a whole brand-new generation of MPEG4-AVC/H.264 transcoding card developed by Leadtek is, composed of Toshiba high-performance stream processor SpursEngine integrating four of Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores based on the "Cell Broadband Engine” intelligence power protection, one-slot adaptive cooling FANsink, and PCI-Express Low profile Form factor.

- source

Here are some pictures of the WinFast PxVC1100 that we just got in for review in the weeks to come:

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If anyone has any ideas on a good way to 'review' this card please feel free to post up your ideas!!

[dicecca112]

be nice to see if you could convert a DVD to h.264, but how you would do that I don't know. Compare that to Badaboom on a GPU and same converted just using CPU.

Don't really see any Program that could use this card, but I will be watching for this. Be nice to speed up the DVD rips.

[Major_A]

Is it similar to the ADS Video To-Go?

I remember reading a review about some USB hardware encoding device that worked quite well a few years back. Then it seems that nothing really transpired. Maybe with the advent of multi-core systems it made the piece of hardware obsolete?

Link to quick review confirms my multi-core suspicions.
http://www.everythingusb.com/ads_instan ... 12252.html

Benchmarks for article:
Maybe use a few different CPUs to make it interesting. Core i7, Core2Quad, Core2Duo, Phenom II Quad, Phenom II X3, and a low power/slow CPU (maybe a AMD Athlon X2 4050e since it seems like a good choice for a HTPC).

30 minute 1080P TV episode to iPod.

DVD to 700MB file.

Software upscale DVD to 1080P vs WinFast HD in IQ and CPU usage.

I also wonder if the CPU + WinFast HD combo alter the encoding times any. In theory if the WinFast is doing all the work shouldn't the benchmarks stay relatively consistent?

*EDIT*
Just thought of another...
Maybe take a GTX 295 with CUDA and TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress and see how it compares.

*EDIT II*
Apparently my frontend (SageTV) supports this card. So if you get tired of playing with it you can send it my way and I'll test it subjectively in my HTPC.

[zoolander]

Any update on the testing the PxVC1100, if i may ask, where did you buy the card? i am based in Europe (Ireland) i have been looking for any online shop, cant seem to find anything around Europe at least in English. Can you post any test results ( encoding a movie on DVD to H.264 with PxVC1100 and ecoding the same movie with Handbrake or Nero Recode 4 or Badaboom )

Thanx

[Major_A]

Apparently there is and external version of this product too.
http://www.techpowerup.com/94061/Leadte ... coder.html

[Major_A]

Any update on when this will be published? I'm actually excited about this product and am curious how it performs.