On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:18 -0500, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > On Wednesday 02 November 2005 14:11, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: > > According to http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1880749,00.asp > > ATI is delivering a GPU enabled transcoding method that cuts video > > transcoding down to 1/5 the time it would take the cpu. This might also > > be applied to audio codecs in theory (I havent looked into it enough). > > This has come up several times over the years. YES a GPU might be able to > take some CPU load off but you now add latency because you're shipping data > to and from main memory to the GPU and back. It's also been stated that AGP > transfers are optimized for memory to the video card and not the other way > around, so you may add more latency than you expect. > > Using the GPU for video codec work makes sense because once it's off on the > video card it ain't coming back. This is most certainly not the case with > audio. :-) > read the article, that isnt what is going on there. Specifically what is going on is transcoding video then pulling that back from the video card (say converting a mpeg to wmv).
Thanks for the time to write back on this issue however, although it would have been nicer if you read the article first so you knew what was being talked about in this specific instance :/ > Nobody can really truly say until there are some benchmarks run, and nobody's > stopping anyone from exerting the effort. It just takes someone curious > enough to acutally go do it. The article has benchmarks on video, as that is all the tool from ATI currently does, although you wouldnt be able to use that tool - especially in its current state - however you would be able to use the concept of that tool. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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