GPU Acceleration in Divx?

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pwhitmer57
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Gentlemen (and women),

Are there any current plans to expand the Divx codec to support GPU acceleration (via CUDA for GeForce8/9 or ATI's equivalent)?

I know we are all looking for ways to improve the time to transcode video, with multi-threading CPUs being the latest step in that process. With the recent advances in the move to using a GPU for image related tasks, it seems like a natural progression for Divx to support using the GPU in a PC to accelerate the process. It should be a fairly simple matter to determine if the installed GPU is supported, and if so, use it for transcoding.

I am fully aware much of the code for this proposal is not available for every GPU out there (quite the contrary), and that this whole idea is still very much in its infancy, but I felt the time was ripe just to ask the question, and perhaps start the ball rolling.

Paul.

Kezix
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CUDA in Divx?

I am very interested to find out if there are plans to take advantage of CUDA with Divx.

I am leaning towards buying Nero Move It which will encode videos to H.264 just like Divx and will also use CUDA starting next month with an update.

If I don't hear that Divx will be using CUDA by then I will just get the Nero program.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nero-Cuda-Nvidia-video-encoding,news-3559.html

Though I guess the Nero program appears to do way more than Divx. Maybe I'd be better off just getting the Nero regardless....

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