ATI Performance Driver + Stream Computing- 8.12 Beta

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: MadFox
Has anyone managed to get the GPU accelerated encoding working on XP? I installed the new drivers, fired up AVIVO from the basic menu, aaand it just used the cpu, took 30 minutes to transcode a file, used nearly 100% cpu and gpu was around the 0-6% mark. Bit disappointed tbh, I will have to fire up my vista install and see if it works there. IIRC this happened on the older avivo too, with it just using cpu.

There was an article I found, but can't remember where...

Anyway the jist of it was that the AVIVO transcoder from ATI is faster than Nvidia's transcoder because it uses a lot of CPU time in addition to the GPU. So when you run in the background it slows down significantly compared to running it in the foreground. Also, they noted image problems with the finished video using AVIVO. Nvidia's application (badaboom) didn't have these issues but also wasn't as fast because it offloaded almost all of the processing from the CPU. Working in the background on badaboom was faster because the CPU wasn't a factor.

I know that doesn't directly help you, but I found it interesting. if I find the article again i'll post the link.

 

[SSChevy2001]

Originally posted by: MadFox
Has anyone managed to get the GPU accelerated encoding working on XP? I installed the new drivers, fired up AVIVO from the basic menu, aaand it just used the cpu, took 30 minutes to transcode a file, used nearly 100% cpu and gpu was around the 0-6% mark. Bit disappointed tbh, I will have to fire up my vista install and see if it works there. IIRC this happened on the older avivo too, with it just using cpu.

I noticed the same thing on Vista. It was like 30% GPU usage with 550/200 clocks, and with normal clocks it was like 0%. Still didn't matter as 3 of 3 conversion were crap.

Also the presets are a joke ( MP4 SP for PSP ). AVC support been out since firmware 2.0 back in 2005, talk about outdated.

No unprotected DVD support?

This is just a very disappointing way to show off ATi stream.

 

[MadFox]

It doesn't seem to use the gpu at all from what I can tell, takes the same amount of time for ffmpeg as it does for avivo to encode. It does seem to be a bit of a joke product. I'll just stick to good old software encoding for now I think, I just wish I had a quad core :/