ADS Instant Video To Go Review
March 31, 2007 by colbert low
Filed under Handhelds, Portable Video
In this review, Everythingusb puts the Instant Video To Go – the first USB H.264 external encoder – through a series of tests, including a video conversion of a 30min VOB from MPEG-2 to iPod-friendly AVC format in 640×480 at highest allowable bitrate at 1.5Mbps. The result was nothing short of breathtaking. Their 3-year old Celeron 2.2Ghz was able to finish the encoding almost in real-time. Without the ADS USB encoder, Videora could only accomplish the same task in 4 hours. However, after they repeated the same test on a Intel Duo Core 1.83Ghz, Videora was able to make use of the extra core, and was able to match the speed that of the Video To Go.
Bad product. It doesn’t work with AppleTV as advertised. It doesn’t maintain aspect ratios (making wide-screen content look BAD), and it can’t handle DVDs (although individual vobs are supported)