When X1000 chips were launched on the market, transcoding software was not yet ready. Even such a partial hardware support is a large step forward, all the previous utilities for video transcoding using only a CPU.
Separate video cards and future integrated video cores with AVIVO support offer video encoding and transcoding with partial hardware support for the installed video chips. The only requirement is to install proper software and the latest drivers. So, as you may have guessed from the introductory article about AVIVO, all the new ATI RADEON X1000 video chips support firmware video transcoding. Catalyst 5.13 is planned to be released already on December 21st or 22nd. We shall review these features a tad later. And now, before the end of this year, they decided to release a special version - Catalyst 5.13, which possesses improved MPEG2 support and offers firmware H.264 decoding. Not long ago they released another Catalyst 5.12 driver with support for dual-core systems.
But today we shall speak of encoding only.īy the way, ATI prepared a New Year's gift to all owners of RADEON X1000 series video cards. It will be especially interesting to see H.264 decoding, as Cyberlink decoder, enjoying hardware support on X1000 series video cards, is already available in our lab and it really works, CPU load reduced. Our plans for the nearest future include performance and playback/post-processing quality comparison of various video formats, from MPEG2 to H.264/AVC. In this review we shall analyze a beta version of the transcode utility, its performance characteristics as well as encode quality. It's one of the most interesting features of the AVIVO technology, hardware support for encoding being introduced into consumer chips for the first time. In the first practical article about AVIVO we shall review one of the new features, offered by AVIVO - a special utility for transcoding various video formats using hardware acceleration.
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