Elgato Turbo.264

Turbo.264 is a powerful hardware encoding device that quickly converts any video to the advanced H.264 (MPEG-4) format without using your Mac resources. Work, watch TV and surf the web while you encode video with no reduction in processing speed. Turbo.264 supports many third-party Mac video applications as well as EyeTV.

What is new in this release:

• What's new in Turbo.264 1.4?
• Improved Picture Quality:
• In many cases, encoded files are sharper due to improved deinterlacing. This reduces encoding speed somewhat, especially on slower Macs.
• Advanced Options:
• Three advanced custom options have been added.
• The "Dolby Digital" option preserves Dolby Digital AC-3 audio when encoding to Apple TV.
• The "Chapter Markers" option creates QuickTime chapter markers from sources that contain chapter markers, e.g. DVD.
• The "Closed Captions" option creates a QuickTime closed caption track from NTSC sources with closed captions.
• Bug Fixes:
• Files encoded to iPod/iPhone formats no longer cause the second-generation iPod touch to crash.
• A problem where files encoded from EyeTV 3.1.1 to Apple TV, iPhone or iPod did not contain the sound track has been resolved.
• QuickTime Player no longer plays back files with an incorrect gamma value.
• iMovie projects that contained a title at the beginning no longer export at 1 frame per second.
• Files exported from Final Cut Pro are no longer cropped.
• Improved recovery after encountering a communication problem on the USB bus.
• Exports to Apple TV now play on the PS3.
• Audio/Video synchronization issues with certain source files have been resolved.
2 Jan 15 in Audio Software, Audio Converters & Rippers & Grabbers