RADEON's IDICT?

[HJL]

I know RADEON has hardware decoder built in.
Does it have hardware assisted ENCODING as well? Or is encoding soley done on CPU power?
Thanks.

 

[Auric]

Hardware MPEG-2 encoding is a function of the Rage Theatre chip (included with some Radeon models). Inverse Discreet Cosine Transform is an MPEG-2 decode feature of the Rage graphics chip.

 

[Mday]

IDCT is a feature of the rage128 and radeon chips. the rage chip is much older, and does not have anything good at all... the last version of the rage chip was called the rage pro, which was around during the days of the first DVD drives... and was old then...

hardware encoding DOES NOT EXIST on any ATI products, yet. their product which was supposed to have hardware mpeg2 encoding was cancelled... the rage theatre does not have mpeg2 encoding at all. it is a vivo chip, hence vivo in some of the ati cards.

 

[rbV5]

<the rage theatre does not have mpeg2 encoding at all> How am I able to encode mpeg-2 with my AIW Radeon then?

 

[hans007]

it encodes to mpg2 with the CPU. uses your 3dnow or sse i think also.