x264 CUDA version?

[moviefan]

Hey guys,

I've just had a quick glance at the CUDA environment provided by Nvidia and read the programming language is C-based and basically is C, except for a couple of limitations. Wouldn't it be (more or less) easy to compile the x264 source with the CUDA compiler to run it via GPU? I haven't gone into research very deeply, just an idea...

Regards

[LoRd_MuldeR]

This has been discusses before:

CUDA being "just like standard C" is true, but only syntactically--the threading model is what makes it very difficult to use.

[Dark Shikari]

From ffmpeg-devel:

> The only thing I wanted to really ask was if it wasn't possible to use
> GPU instead of CPU like the example I gave which use cuda

Patches welcome. After my experience trying to port something as
trivial as an exhaustive motion search to CUDA, I'm not touching it
with a ten foot pole.