Avivo More Developed Now. Any good?

[brucevangeorge]

I'ze been looking at ATI Avivo as a means to encode movies faster.

Seemed promising, but then I learned that it was simply an "opitmized" CPU encoder. No GPU support.

Has this been improved at all? And can it take codecs like Nero? x264? And such?

[Manao]

Not really optimized. It just didn't have the same quality target as the other. It was worse in quality than XviD for example ( which is a shame, for an AVC encoder ).

Avivo is a codec by itself, it can be used to speed up other codecs.