Transcoding in 1/5 the Time with Help from the GPU

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech's Jason Cross got a lead about a technology ATI is developing called Avivo Transcode that will use ATI graphics cards to cut down the time it takes to transcode video by a factor of five. It's part of the general-purpose computation on GPU movement. The Aviva Transcode software can only work with ATI's latest 1000-series GPUs, and the company is working on profiles that will allow, for example, transcoding DVDs for Sony's PSP."

Slashdotted!

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder if http://www.gpgpu.org/ [gpgpu.org] could offload some of the Slashdot effect to their GPU?

Crippled?

[bigberk]

But will the outputs have to be certified by Hollywood or the media industry? You know, because the only reason for processing audio or video is to steal profits from Sony, BMG, Warner, ... and renegade hacker tactics like A/D conversion should be legislated back to the hell they came from

There's a CPU in my keyboard too...

[Anonymous Coward]

As I remember from my hardware class...there's an Intel 8051 or similar in most PC keyboards...wouldn't it be cool to somehow be able to use that CPU for something useful (aside from polling the keyboard)