FIRECODER Blu is an H.264/MPEG2 compatible hardware transcoder board which provides high speed encoding of video files for use in Blu-ray authoring. FIRECODER Blu may also be used to transcode between H.264 and MPEG-2 files. It supports up and down conversion of SD and HD sources and supports native 24p Blu-ray authoring. Output may be written directly to Blu-ray disc or stored as a file. Provides 4-5x faster than real-time encoding. Contents: FIRECODER Blu PCI-Express 1x card + FIRECODER WRITER software