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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.

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Here are some pictures of the WinFast PxVC1100 that we just got in for review in the weeks to come:
If anyone has any ideas on a good way to 'review' this card please feel free to post up your ideas!!

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.

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.

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

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

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