Support for Dell Xcelerator HW Encoder?

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Anyone out there have or used a Dell XPS 420 system with the new Dell Xcelerator? For those who haven't seen this device it's basically a HW accelerated encoder that lets you take in HD / SD MPEG2 source files and transcode it to MPEG4 using very little CPU in the process.

The device appears to be manufactured by a company called Lumanate for Dell and is called the "Lazer". Anyone know if these can be purchased at retail or are they OEM only? Seems like this would be a very handy device to have on a Sage server to offload transcoding functionality.

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Lumanate is just the old Emuzed under new name and there stuff is most likely hard coded make them useless so unless that Dell Xcelerator has DirectShow support I would count on it.

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Originally Posted by SHS

Lumanate is just the old Emuzed under new name and there stuff is most likely hard coded make them useless so unless that Dell Xcelerator has DirectShow support I would count on it.

It looks like Roxio Easy Media Creator uses that device, so it's quite likely it does use a DirectShow based filter.

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One way to fine out it to use graphedit

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Originally Posted by SHS

One way to fine out it to use graphedit

It looks like it's Dshow compatible... driver package contains two filters named LumanateX.ax and Luma.ax. I don't have a device to test with, so anyone who has an XPS 420 please chime in.

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That Xcelerator card is only sold with there PC that going be the only way to get one.

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Well here a picture and some info
http://support.dell.com/support/topi...doclang=en&cs=