Wednesday, June 25th 2008
ATI Radeon HD4850 Transcodes Four 1080p Video Files Simultaneously in Real-Time
With advancements in visual-computing technologies on an all-time high, and graphics processing units with immense 3D computational power coming out by the fortnights, consumers benefit the most. In the process of evaluating graphics processors' abilities using the latest 3D games and synthetic 3D benchmark software alone, we are probably missing out on other primary uses of a GPU which when tapped, show just how potent a GPU can be. Both NVIDIA and ATI have had video-transcoding features that until exploited by software are close to rudimentary.
Cyberlink, have been working on technologies that enable their software to harness the video-transcoding abilities of GPU's. Shuichi Takagi, CyberLink's vice president of of business development ran a demonstration of PowerDirector 7 that is capable of GPU-accelerated video-transcoding, on a recently launched ATI Radeon HD4850 512 MB, proving that the hardware and software is capable of converting four HD MPEG-2 movies into MPEG-4 simultaneously, in real time. According to Shuichi, it will take about 30 minutes to process four full-length movies and compress them into handheld-friendly 200+ MB files.
Source:
TG Daily
Cyberlink, have been working on technologies that enable their software to harness the video-transcoding abilities of GPU's. Shuichi Takagi, CyberLink's vice president of of business development ran a demonstration of PowerDirector 7 that is capable of GPU-accelerated video-transcoding, on a recently launched ATI Radeon HD4850 512 MB, proving that the hardware and software is capable of converting four HD MPEG-2 movies into MPEG-4 simultaneously, in real time. According to Shuichi, it will take about 30 minutes to process four full-length movies and compress them into handheld-friendly 200+ MB files.
26 Comments on ATI Radeon HD4850 Transcodes Four 1080p Video Files Simultaneously in Real-Time
I mean, I'm sure the GTX cards can do similar. But still.
HOT DAMN!
We should be happy that the GPU has come this far. It's not ATI or NVIDIA but we who win.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C_Pj1Ep4nw
edit: anandtech covered it as well
www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3334&p=20
That's some impressive computing power.
So not sure what conditions need to be met to allow GPU acceleration there was no options to enable hardware acceleration. Anyone been able to get it to work ?
The PowerDirector7 software
A BD/HDDVD drive (or any source of a lossless HD 1080p video) total of 4 sources
Transcode them to H.264 simultaneously.Yes. But I really don't know when Cyberlink is releasing this feature.