Anyone to take advantage of onboard Nvidia realtime DiVX encoding chip?

[oddball]

Apparently the latest round of Nvidia cards have an onboard chip capable of doing realtime DiVX encoding. Is there anyone working on any software to take advantage of this?

[Doom9]

uhh.. you seem to know more than the rest of the world because that's the first time I hear of divx encoding onboard. I think you mean DXVA - DirectX Video Acceleration.. that's for decoding. There's been a bit about PureVideo in my news.. with proper drivers and NvDVD, you have that support. Yet, decoding supports really doesn't matter much with todays CPU power.

[oddball]

From Guru3D review at http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/169/5/

"NV4x Video Architecture
Next to being a gaming card, starting with the GeForce Series 6 some high-quality video options become available also. First off, Series 6 is a fully programmable video processor; you can actually use it in paint programs or software like Adobe After Effects. And hey, this has the first ever on-chip GPU video encoder. Among the features are motion adaptive interlacing, integrated TV-Encoder, HDTV support (720p. 1080i, 480p, CGMS). We so need HDTV support here in Europe. Not only that but the NV40 now also can Decode and... Encode MPEG 1/2 and 4, and yes also real-time DiVX Decode/Encode. Now if someone can please release the software to take advantage of it."

[dragongodz]

it requires the encoder/codec/etc to be written to use the features on the vpu. as yet i have not really heard any more about it yet.

a little info/comment can be found near the bottom here
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19314

[Doom9]

if you look at the purevideo info (http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041220_163829.html as an example), it's all about decoding, and currently there's only MPEG-2 decoding supported. Even if the chip could be used to encode to any format, it would require encoder support, and there's currently neither such a thing, nor have I heard anything about plans for such a thing.

[dragongodz]

Even if the chip could be used to encode to any format, it would require encoder support, and there's currently neither such a thing
ummm didnt i just say that ? :D

nor have I heard anything about plans for such a thing.
if you check out the link i gave only 1 named product is mentioned so far.
The first application that NVIDIA is targeting to support it's GPU encode capabilities is Windows Media Center Edition 2005.

[Doom9]

ummm didnt i just say that ? When I started posting, your post was not there yet, when I finally submitted the post, yours was there ;)