GPU accelerated video transcoding!

[wkulecz]

ATI has a beta software using the X1000 series of video cards GPU to speed up video rendering.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1880668,00.asp

Question is, when will video editing & DVD authoring apps take advantage of this?

--wally.

[Dr Mordrid]

Some have been using the graphics card for a long time. Serious Magic's Ultra 2 and IIRC Canopus XPlode do and so do many effects packages that use OpenGL for certain f/x. The old Matrox RT-2000 realtime card used their G400-Flex's GPU for filtering and 3D f/x.

As for DVD authoring programs; why? IMO it's a waste to spend time coding just for slideshow transitions and the other few effects they actually apply. The time/effort is better spent on the editing software.

Dr. Mordrid

[Nowhere]

Doc, but it's not about some fancy effects, it's about converting from one format to another, DVD/DV -> MPEG4/H.264 for example. Something that could actually be widely used...

[wkulecz]

DVD authoring packages like Nero6.6 that can start with DV and encode it to MPEG2 are what I was thinking of.

The article's "test" showed as much as a 5:1 speed up over "normal" encode on a high-end Athelon X2.

--wally.

[Technoid]

DVD authoring packages like Nero6.6 that can start with DV and encode it to MPEG2 are what I was thinking of.

The article's "test" showed as much as a 5:1 speed up over "normal" encode on a high-end Athelon X2.

--wally.

Okay this is offtopic, but why are you spelling Athlon "Athelon" ?

[wkulecz]

Because:
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."
-- Andrew Jackson

[Nowhere]

I've often heard dyslexia as an excuse, but never something philosophical...

[Brian Ellis]

"Itt's aa dam pur maind thatt cann ownly thinck ov wun waiy tu spel aa wurd."
-- Andrew Jackson

[Debbie]

Brian,

I was shure, while reading, that these were not your words (the vocabulary I mean) LOL.

Debbie

[Brian Ellis]

Shore wuz