I have purchased an encoder solution from Z3 Tech that uses DM368 chip, I have spent $3000 on 3 units, and talked several hour with tech support and Aaron CEO, we could not make it work to encode PAL 720X576, h.264 MP, 1024 kbps stream.
I have looked around several commercial encoder, they are very pricy or do not work to our satisfactorily. I am looking for a better encoder chip/solution based on TI.
We are willing to dedicate resources to develop a solution for D1 resolution encoder using low power devices. At this time we are using AMD Phemon X4 cpu and happauge card to encode 2 channels at a time.
Thanks