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Elgato Turbo.264 - Video H.264 (MP4) Encoder Hardware 10020500 | 
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| Brand: Elgato
Category: CE
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $64.95
You Save: $35.00 (35%)
New (9) Used (3) from $50.00
Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 7628
Format: Cd
Platform: Macintosh
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: 10020500
Model: 10020500
UPC: 852095000676
EAN: 0852095000676
ASIN: B000PCVIEU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Convert widescreen DVD (VIDEO_TS) video files without black bars. | | • | Tweak video resolution and frame rate; | | • | Adjust the video settings so it plays on your smartphone; | | • | Pick the audio track you wish to go with the main feature when converting VIDEO TS folders. | | • | Turbo264 supports 4 - 3 and 16 - 9 aspect ratios as well as widescreen |
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Product Description
Elgato Systems is the home of internationally acclaimed TV software. Elgato's award-winning hardware offers a complete range of solutions to watch, record, and edit Standard Definition Television (SDTV) and High Definition Television (HDTV), and create video content.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 Seems to work, but not that great for a powerful MAC June 15, 2009
Douglas A. Kreitz (Cumming, GA)
I bought this for my 2.8Ghz iMAC, and found no appreciable difference between iMovie and Quicktime behavior. So for me, it is not worth the money.
I am not using the Elgato proprietary software, and cannot speak to how well that will work. Also, I would not be surprised to find out that a less powerful machine might be bettered using this device, so it may have a fit somewhere, just not with me.
 Not So Much about Speed June 4, 2009
Dustin Sallings (SF Bay Area)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've seen a lot of reviews complaining about the speed of this thing. That's not what it's about for me -- it's about freeing up my CPU for other stuff.
I can be encoding/transcoding tons of video while still able to do other things. A couple of days ago I was transcoding two video streams concurrently (one through this and one through the main CPU).
The only thing unfortunate about it is that it doesn't work with Final Cut as a render accelerator.
Not worth the money ... sorry March 8, 2009
Johannes A. Luijten (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have used this product for over a year now, and can honestly say that it's not worth the money.
Transcoding video is faster (tried MacBook Pro and Mac Pro) and more flexible (more options in settings and such) when doing it without the Elgato Turbo ...
This might be a product useful for G3 owners?
If you're encoding video on a PPC machine, you need this... February 17, 2009
Paul Brown (Naperville, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this with one thing in mind, to encode video files created by Elgato's EyeTV software on a 1.5ghz PPC Mac Mini and for that it works seamlessly.
The device itself looks cheaply made, the case covering the electronics is very flimsy and, on my particular unit, the cap covering the usb connector would not sit flush, mainly due to the fact the circuit board that the usb connector was attached to was not sitting correctly inside the case..
All of the above is quickly forgotten when the device is attached to the back of the computer, but first impressions count, hence only 4 stars.
The software that comes with it is simple to use. Feed it a file, choose what device you want to encode the file for, and go. Couldn't be simpler and the quality of the files is very good. There appears to be some trade off between file size and speed, but overall the files you encode will typically be around half the size of the original.
As stated above, i use it in conjunction with Elgato's EyeTV software and the two are made for each other. Using an old 1.5Ghz PPC Mac Mini modified to run at 1.75Ghz, recordings that used to take upwards of 3 hours to export from EyeTV and encode into Apple TV H264 compatible files now take an hour or so. I haven't timed it with a stopwatch, but pretty much everything i throw at it gets done twice as fast, if not faster, than before.
If you have an old PPC machine that you are using to encode video into QuickTime compatible H264 files, you need this device. It's that simple.
 Known bugs in firmware December 29, 2008
D. Gleason (Monticello, MN)
I recently bought the Turbo.264 and was VERY disappointed in the results. I was initially impressed with the speed until I saw the output of the movie. Big blocky picture output which made it unviewable. I tried a few times after that, with different sources (all unencrypted DVD's, still getting the same result).
Technical Support at Elgato was not much help as they told me it probably had to do with a bug in the firmware. They sent me a link to a new beta firmware update, but it was the same result.
I am very disappointed in this. As of right now, it is useless to me and it's not even heavy enough for me to use as a paperweight. I'm back to using Handbrake for now.
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