Finally: Avivo is accelerated

[pBS]

well, they finally have produced the vaporware they've been touting for years...
With HD4600+ cards, the Catalyst 9.7 release of Avivo actually does use the gpu for encoding!

There are new filters in the download, and the guy from bluesky who makes dxvachecker has also updated his A's Video Converter to take advantage, and it has command line options now too.. http://bluesky23.hp.infoseek.co.jp/en/index.html

But... in true ATI style, the misinformation continues...lol
an excerpt from their page on it..

1 The ATI Video Converter is only supported on ATI Radeon™ 4600 and ATI Radeon™ 4800 Series GPUs. [kinda narrow base considering the advertising]

2 The pre-release version of ATI Video Converter demonstrates that ATI Stream technology allows video conversion that is faster than ever before. ATI Video Converter using ATI Stream technology converted an HD MPEG2 video at 1920x1080 resolution @ 24fps running 3600 seconds to an MPEG4 video at 320x240 resolution at 24 fps in 3 hours 23 minutes, while iTunes 8.0.1 with WinQuickTimeMPEG2 pack converted the same source video to the same output specifications in 3 hours and 23 minutes, demonstrating a 17x speed up.[huh?!] System specifications: Intel Core 2 Duo QX9650 3.0 GHz processor, 6GB of Corsair CM2X1024-8500C5D 1066 MHz memory, Windows Vista Ultimate® 64-bit with Service Pack 1, ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 512MB.

oh, so it converts in the same exact time and that's considered 17x faster? lol
it does actually convert really fast, so that's a real goof typo..[17x = 12mins]
and isn't a QX9650 a QUAD core and not a Duo?!
and could we make a more silly encode? 1080p -> 320x240? oh that'll show it's power...not! lol
that really only shows *decode* speedups if anything...
their advertising dept. really needs to talk to their technical folks...

anyways, next week i'll be playing with the filters and making assessments and post results..
[i just got a 9400GT and now i'm trading back in for a lowprofile hd4650 with hdmi...]

please post any helpfull info if you have one...
tho i'm thinking now this should be in hardware forums..

[pBS]

well, the 4600+ thing is a myth as well, works same on my 3650 as a 4650..
[about 60fps making h264 1280x720 from hd source]
i bet 2600's work as well as 3600 as they have same uvd1 proc...

now 34xx's and 43xx's are a different story...i got it to use the gpu on one, but it didn't offer any acceleration...about same as without, tho i'm sure it offloads some from main cpu still.. probably cuz they only have a few processors,x6xx have 320.
[about 15-25 fps even on 720x] [HD3450]

it only uses about 35% GPU average, peaking a bit to 50%...
[and that's using uvd for both decode and encode at same time]

i even got it working on my AGP 3450...
[tho no real benefit cuz of lack of horsepower in those]