ATI VIVO MPEG2 Encoding

[lowtechguy]

Hi

I have an ATI Radeon VIVO card. The fact that I can capture video in mpeg2 format without much CPU use, makes me suspect thta it has hardware mpeg2 encoder built in.

If that is the case then my question is, is there any software that could take advantage of this encoder for sake of conversion. I use different programs to convert many different video formats (MPEG1, AVI/Divx) to Mpeg2 streams. The encoding is very slow on the fastest computers (many hours for a single hour of video). It would be really cool if hardware based encoding could be used to reduce the time by several orders of magnitude.

Cheers

lowtechguy

 

[rbV5]

<< makes me suspect thta it has hardware mpeg2 encoder built in. >>



You suspect wrong actually, the ATI card uses Ligos "GoMotion" software encoding, and it certainly taxes your CPU as only the most powerful CPU's can capture at the highest MPEG-2 resolutions, the resolution scales with your CPU.

The ATI digital VCR is the only software that takes advantage of the real-time Ligos codec.

 

[lowtechguy]

buckets of water thrown over my optimism!! but hey, Thanks for the correction and saving me waste of time in doing more research.

cheers



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<< makes me suspect thta it has hardware mpeg2 encoder built in. >>



You suspect wrong actually, the ATI card uses Ligos "GoMotion" software encoding, and it certainly taxes your CPU as only the most powerful CPU's can capture at the highest MPEG-2 resolutions, the resolution scales with your CPU.

The ATI digital VCR is the only software that takes advantage of the real-time Ligos codec. >>