The Slingbox pro HD will use H.264 with the CABAC option for even greater compression efficiency. To my knowledge, apple's H.264 uses CAVLC (less CPU intensive at the price of compression efficiency) instead of CABAC to ensure smooth playback across the whole apple product range. That might be a problem.
Apple's MPEG4 implemantations (be that part 2 or part 10) have always been somewhat inferior anyway.
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The Slingbox pro HD will use H.264 with the CABAC option for even greater compression efficiency.
To my knowledge, apple's H.264 uses CAVLC (less CPU intensive at the price of compression efficiency) instead of CABAC to ensure smooth playback across the whole apple product range.
That might be a problem.
Apple's MPEG4 implemantations (be that part 2 or part 10) have always been somewhat inferior anyway.