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speed up ipod and psp video encoding

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If you’re frustrated with how long it takes to convert your videos into a format that can be played back on your portable device, this new device promises to significantly reduce the time required to encode videos into the popular H.264/.mp4 encoding format used by both the iPod and PSP among others.

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November 20th, 2006 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing media players

xbox 360 hd dvd playback: over 4.7 million lines of code

Xbox 360 HD DVD

In this post by Shaheen Gandhi, an engineer on the Xbox 360 Platform Team, a massive amount of code went into the HD DVD playback system for the Xbox 360.
As a result of the complexities of decoding HD DVD audio and video content, as well as providing a user interface and DRM, over 4.7…

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November 5th, 2006 comments (14) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games