New GPU CODEC provider, CoreIMG

[ecowayne]

http://www.coreimg.com/English/index.php

They have covered a wide range of video coding formats (MPEG-2, H.264, DV, J2K, etc), guess they are using CUDA and shader languages instead of PureVideo things. They published their performance data for MPEG-2, DVCPRO 25, 50, HD decoding performance comparison, looks good. Should be good for video server applications and whatever applications that requires fast video decoding and processing. Should check it out if you guys are interested. :sly:

[CruNcher]

Looks like the Chinese Counterpart to CoreCodec to me never heard of them though :D

[ecowayne]

Looks like the Chinese Counterpart to CoreCodec to me never heard of them though :D

:D Totally~ I guess they have got to be a start-up to do things like this. That's why I'm interested in who is using its CODECs on what kind of products. It's nice to have something that's cheap and fast anyway.

But does CoreCodec has that many formats supported for GPU or they are about to? Thanks!

[Sagekilla]

The guys at CoreCodec don't do video encoding. They do encoding, specifically of H.264 (With GPU acceleration) at this time.

[CruNcher]

Sagekilla how do you know that ;) they have to be flexible to survive in these days (especially Asian IT is exploding with ideas, new concepts, new companies and products) so for sure they also have Encoding R&D going on and thinker with other Video Formats as well :)

[Dark Shikari]

Sagekilla how do you know that ;) they have to be flexible to survive in these days (especially Asian IT is exploding with ideas, new concepts, new companies and products) so for sure they also have Encoding R&D going on and thinker with other Video Formats as well :)No, actually, they don't.

[squid_80]

We certainly have decoders for more than just H264 (ever heard of TCPMP/CorePlayer?). CoreAVC is just the only one we sell as a standalone directshow filter to consumers.

[ecowayne]

We certainly have decoders for more than just H264 (ever heard of TCPMP/CorePlayer?). CoreAVC is just the only one we sell as a standalone directshow filter to consumers.

You are from CoreCodec? Nice to know all you guys from all CODEC companies, ;)

I can see why CoreAVC is doing what they did, because they mainly target on consumer applications like movie playback and editing on PC. But whatif the bit-rate of the video is really high like and whatif the application is on server side for video data processing, could it be advantagous for the CoreIMG guys to have a decoder that runs fast as hell with low budget and low CPU usage?

BTW, now with you guys discussing it, CoreIMG do sound like a CoreCodec counterpart......

[squid_80]

In my experience a CPU based codec will always be faster than a GPU based codec... unless your CPU is more than 5 years old, but then the matching GPU probably wouldn't be too great either.

CoreIMG have no relationship to CoreCodec at all. The fact that they offer similar products/services and have a very similar name appears to be a "coincidence", just like if they'd called themselves "Odobe", "MegaConcept" or "DiviX".

[jasonme]

In my experience a CPU based codec will always be faster than a GPU based codec... unless your CPU is more than 5 years old, but then the matching GPU probably wouldn't be too great either.

CoreIMG have no relationship to CoreCodec at all. The fact that they offer similar products/services and have a very similar name appears to be a "coincidence", just like if they'd called themselves "Odobe", "MegaConcept" or "DiviX".

Really? CPU codec is faster than GPU codecs? How about budget comparison? Graphics cards are pretty cheaps now. A descent CPU could still cost a fortune.

Yeah their name is indeed pretty close, but I don't think they are using CoreCodec's fame to boost itself. I mean they are basically doing very different things from you guys after all. Gotta give a little space and peace for probably start-ups. But "Odobe"? LMAO, ;)