I've been following the Nvidia CUDA and ATI Stream situation for a little while now.
The promise of a GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit) for all sorts of number crunching is a great idea. But I don't really give a toss about that, I'm interested in whether it can make my video encoding go any faster!
Some time ago I read an article about how the use of CUDA was going to make H.264 video encoding loads faster on even basic PCs, but from the complete lack of news about it since then I'm led to understand that didn't happen.
There are of course various bits of software that supposedly do use CUDA to speed up encoding/transcoding (e.g. Badaboom), but the quality of encodes is still an issue.
Now that I've finished encoding my DVD library into digital formats it's become much less of an issue, but going forward I'd love to see a proper hardware solution - that can encode at decent resolutions with acceptable quality. If anyone's used one and has suggestions, let me know.
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