From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:11:18 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>Hardware wise, I can software compress a video stream to Xvid on the
>fly from a broadcast, so if I can do that then how much lag can there be
>doing hardware compression?

  There's a difference between being able to keep up with a stream and not
having a lag in communications.  Many compressions algorithms benefit from
a larger view of the data to be able to optimize.   So, although it may
continuously accept 20MB/s (or whatever), there could be an x second delay
in the output.

     I don't know specifically about Xvid.

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