TV card with hardware mpeg-4 encoding

[ufster8]

Basically is there a tv card that can encode mpeg-4 without eating up many cpu cycles? I miss a lot of football(soccer there ) matches while working and mpeg-2 I am not happy with so I want an mpeg-4 hardware encoding card to record these games while I go about my work on my PC...
My budget is about 200 bucks maybe I can squeeze a bit more

 

[CrimandEvil]

What card are you using now?

...And soccer is for girls.

 

[IanG]

There's only the plextor usb2 device that will do hardware mpeg4 capture, and I think that only sage support it atm. The plextor won't be that much (if at all!) better looking than a PVR150 or Ati550 @ maximum quality though.

And you better not be a Chelski fan

edit - here's the link for the plextor http://www.plextor.com/english/products/ConvertX2.htm

 

[m2h]

Yuan has a couple that do mpeg2/4 .. but good luck obtaining em.
http://www.yuan.com.tw/en/products/smartvdo.html#2

 

[ufster8]

I have a Leadtek WinTV 2000 Deluxe but thats temporary, and thanks for the links guys

 

[IeraseU]

There's only the plextor usb2 device that will do hardware mpeg4 capture, and I think that only sage support it atm.

I think BeyondTV supports the plextor units for hardware divx encoding also, although I should mention I have not personally tested this. Here is a quote from the 3.7.2 patch notes:

Version 3.7.2 Release Notes
Build 2040 | July 12, 2005

* Support for DivX recording mode for Plextor PX-TV402U/PXM402U