This is one of those "prove me wrong" things but under Linux DV decoding eats up 40% of my P4/2.4B. I can currently encode to 320x240 DIVX in real time offline but a good VCD takes a bit more power.

The What: DVDO has introduced the DVDO-H264/5-Encoder and DVDO-H264/5-Decoder, designed to convert Full HD 1080p video from any HDMI source into high-quality H.264/5 streams over IP for use in video ...

Spin Digital has announced the launch of new versions of its live encoder (Spin Enc Live v2.0) and Media SDK (Spin SDK v6.0) introducing support for real-time VVC encoding optimised for live streaming ...