I'd love a fast way to encode AVC but it'd have to be pluggable into a toolchain such as MeGUI. It's too bad something like SPURs / Cell isn't embedded into graphics cards because a general purpose, brutally fast number cruncher would be useful for so many things - encoding, physics, animation, effects etc.
It already is integrated into at least two video cards; one is the Leadtek Winfast PxVC 1100. I can't remember who makes the second, but it runs about $600 USD. They're supposed to be optimized for video encoding with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.
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I'd love a fast way to encode AVC but it'd have to be pluggable into a toolchain such as MeGUI. It's too bad something like SPURs / Cell isn't embedded into graphics cards because a general purpose, brutally fast number cruncher would be useful for so many things - encoding, physics, animation, effects etc.
It already is integrated into at least two video cards; one is the Leadtek Winfast PxVC 1100. I can't remember who makes the second, but it runs about $600 USD. They're supposed to be optimized for video encoding with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.