Sure many of you have heard of avivo - as for what it is, it merely revers to ATI's new stance on video processing in their video cards. I.E. placing video encoding, decoding, filtering/processing. This sounds pretty good - IF the hardware handles a wide range of video formats. Naturally, hardware is by nature inflexible, so adding future formats to the mix would prove at best, minor increases in speed.
Some of you may be using tv cards to capture video. If you're using a card that doesn't support mpeg4 compression on the fly, or just does it poorly, you're probably capturing in mpeg2. Good for quality, but an absolute hog on harddrive space. And why pay for a transcoder that takes forever?
Ati recently released a demonstration of what their avivo can... wait, scratch that - what the
want their avivo to handle - video transcoding at high speed.
http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2645&p=4halving the time taken to transcode is no easy feat, and ati's avivo can do this, in some tests online, benches were showing speed gains of up to 5x.
By far the most impressive feat, is this is ALL software at the moment. It's not touching the card's hardware at all! Yes, ATI's software programmers, developed algorithms, working at a
multiple of the speed of other transcoders. I'm dying to see what their cards can do once they shift the responsibility to the dedicated hardware.
Because the card isn't being used, some people have decided to release a special version of the transcode tool that does not look for the x1000 drivers - this works with any card, including my nvidia, and operates as a pure software solution.
available on bit-tech
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/12/20/ati_avivo_transcoder_for_all/have fun!
