I stumbled over the Wikipedia-article that the Broadcom GPU has hardware support for **encoding** H.264/AVC, not only *de*-coding.

I also found an article where someone gave an example using `ffmpeg` to generate a h264/mp4 video files. Ok, its a general-purpose CPU with a specialised GPU, so that's not really *the* surprise.

But compared to a standard desktop PC with an average Graphics-Card, will the Raspberry Pi potentially encode H.264/AVC maybe **even faster**? If a desktop user was to optimize his `ffmpeg` to his *Core-i5xxx* with $150 *Ati/Nvidia* graphics card... does that combination offer anything in the ways of "hardware H.264 encoding support"? If not, will a specially adopted Raspberry-Pi-ffmpeg be even faster? If yes, is there a speed comparison already?