[MEncoder-users] Nvidia Cuda or ATI Avivo Support

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi Carl Eugen Hoyos!

 On 2011.01.04 at 21:34:21 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote next:

> > 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?

I'd like to post this link to prove these words - well not 75% but it
really looks like with current official intel, amd and nvidia gpu-accelerated
encoding solutions in windows you have to pay in quality for what you
gain in speed, and the price is pretty noticeable, with CUDA being total
disaster, especially. It's from fresh Sandy Bridge processors review by
anadtech.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i5-2600k-i5-2500k-and-core-i3-2100-tested/9

(also it's pretty noticeable that nothing but intel 2 days fresh
solution is really faster than modern multicore CPU..)

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Vladimir