[MEncoder-users] Nvidia Cuda or ATI Avivo Support

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Jeff Howard <jeffhoward001 <at> netscape.net> writes:

> I didn't see a good way to search the archives, so apologies if this has 
> already been addressed.  Is there any plans in the works for mencoder to 
> support Nvidia CUDA acceleration or ATI Avivo acceleration?

No.
The right place to add would be FFmpeg, but so far nobody has sent any patches.

> My understanding is that they both roughly do the same thing.  It currently 
> takes me almost 8 hrs to encode an average 720p HD stream from MPEG2 -> 
> H.264, and my understanding is that you can cut that time by 50% or more 
> with CUDA/Avivo enabled encoders.

Sure. Don't you think it will reduce quality by 75%?
Did you try x264 --ultrafast?

Carl Eugen