Graphic Cards ATI Delivers GPU-Accelerated Video Transcoding

^ Woah ! Blazing fast ! And these are initial tests with a beta app.

Though I agree with page 3 of the article, they ought to open up/promote access to the GPU for other video transcoding applications instead of just allowing their Avivo app alone to do the job (the beta app is woefully inadequate in options and features) - and many users would still prefer other tools like VirtualDub etc.
 
w00t ! Thats really fast ! 23 seconds as opposed to 4 min 35 seconds !!

Yeah i agree with eddy on the 3rd party encoding/transcoding app. The app by ATi won't be as flexible as say Vdub or TMPGEnc.
 
Encoding this nearly 5-minute clip, at DVD resolution, takes about 2 minutes 17 seconds with DivX 6, with single-pass encoding at 1 megabit. Windows Media Encoder can produce a high-quality single-pass transcode to WMV9 at 1 megabit in about 4:35. Windows Movie Maker 2 takes a few quality shortcuts to produce a DVD resolution clip at 1.5 megabits in 2:05. That's all pretty good: This is, after all, one of the fastest CPUs money can buy, paired with very fast RAM.

How fast does ATI's new Avivo Transcode app get it done? Try 24 seconds! Okay, that's "give or take a second," because the MPEG-4 profile finished a 1-megabit encode in 23 seconds, the MPEG-2 and Windows Media Video 9 profiles were done in 24, and the DVD profile at 6 megabits finished in 25 seconds. That's all at the default full resolution, too. Crunching down the output resolution by choosing the "WMV9 for PMC (Portable Media Center)" profile at 700 kilobits per second completed the job in 17 seconds.
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Thats of much use to me!!! Wow.
 
open up/promote access to the GPU
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They don't really need to open up much, all this stuff is available to anyone to use. Ask Chaos abt it, he knows. It is possible using Shaders, or several other libraries. One I used was BrookGPU. That was some time ago, don't know its current status.

Must add one thing. AFAIK none of the current GPUs are certified compliant with IEEE 32 and 64 bit floating point specs, so u need to either accept a (small ?) hit in accuracy (acceptable for encoding), or perform some compensating tricks (which will slow down the whole thing)
 
WOAH!!!

I want a new mobo and a X1800XL!!

But is this already in a usable form for present owners of X1800 cards?

Or will it be released to the public later??
 
^ The AVIVO Software is still in beta, i'm not sure if it is available for download. Once the software is finalised, will definately be available to everyone.
 
Gotta agree pal, even the X800 series are faster than the 6800 series as far as video encoding goes, in fact even Nero has an option for ATI cards...not sure what it is but I have seen it....Pity I was using my 6800GT sys....and left the X800XT @ home......;)

Crazy_Eddy said:
^ Woah ! Blazing fast ! And these are initial tests with a beta app.

Though I agree with page 3 of the article, they ought to open up/promote access to the GPU for other video transcoding applications instead of just allowing their Avivo app alone to do the job (the beta app is woefully inadequate in options and features) - and many users would still prefer other tools like VirtualDub etc.
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