extremetech.com — As the title says, ATi now has a new application that lets you transcode video from one format to another at the GPU level. It only works with the X1000 line of their GPU's, but is very fast from what this article says. How fast is it? Try a nearly 5 minute clip ripped from a DVD and transcoded into MPEG-4 format in about 24 seconds!
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t35t0rNov 2, 2005
GPGPU applications have been available on nvidia cards since the 6xxx line. ATI is playing catch up. I'm actually surprised no one thought about implementing this on an nvidia (e.g. hint hint mplayer devs!).Also see <a class="user" href="http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/brookgpu/start.html">http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/brookgpu/start.html</a>
recover82Nov 2, 2005
please don't turn this into an Nvidiot vs fanATIc thread.
boscorelleNov 2, 2005
AnyDVD pre-cracks the CSS protection so any program reading the disc sees it as region and protection free
Closed AccountNov 2, 2005
it will make it easier to use ATI to make a MythTv box
pizallNov 2, 2005
Actually this feature is on the R430 chipsetI believe as well.
recover82Nov 2, 2005
well...if a 5 minute clip takes 24 seconds.... do a little multiplication. a 10 minute clip would take 48? 10minutes*6 to get an hour in (48*6)....288 seconds..or 288 / 60 roughly 4.8 minutes?am i thinking correctly here
ahmerhussainNov 2, 2005
The question should be not how, but how much?and if this will work on Linux this would be cool for MythTV
nerysNov 3, 2005
i am not sure how good this really is. i can convert a 1 hour mpeg1 tv recording to 480x320 30fps 500kbit divx in about 30 minutes and thats on a 1.6g celeron with 256mb ram.i wonder how much of that performance was there (relatively speaking) very high end system.also note my figures are everything theres is JUST video if i read it properly.Chris Taylor<a class="user" href="http://www.nerys.com/">http://www.nerys.com/</a>
c0linfangNov 13, 2005
amazing...wonderful...