Ahead Nero gets CUDA support for video encoding

Wednesday 04th March 2009, 08:21:00 PM, written by Rys

Ahead announced support for NVIDIA's CUDA in Nero's Move it application today at CeBIT.  The encoder is targetted at people wanting to create AV for mobile devices like the PSP, iPhone and T-Mobile G1, and for low-def online use on places like YouTube, but it can also do Full HD stuff as well.

Ahead seemingly use CUDA to offload a portion of the encode process to the GPU, much like Badaboom does, and the speedups they tout are as impressive as expected.  Availability isn't until April for the CUDA-enabled version, but you can go ahead and order it now from nero.com.

There's support for most popular codecs, including H.264 (Advanced Profile to boot) included in the 50 Euro price.


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Latest Thread Comments (3 total)
Posted by knitecrow on Wednesday, 04-Mar-09 21:47:50 UTC
why did they not use OpenCL so that they can take advantage of a potentially larger base including ATI GPUs?

Posted by Jawed on Wednesday, 04-Mar-09 22:26:58 UTC
OpenCL isn't ready for the public to use yet. I can imagine it won't be a stable consumer thing until the end of the year. With the strong similarity between CUDA and OpenCL it shouldn't be difficult to port - if they can be bothered. Jawed

Posted by Arnold Beckenbauer on Wednesday, 04-Mar-09 22:54:12 UTC
Quoting B3D News
Ahead announced support for NVIDIA's CUDA in Nero's Move it application today at CeBIT. The encoder is targetted at people wanting to create AV for mobile devices like the PSP, iPhone and T-Mobile G1, and for low-def online use on places like YouTube, but it can also do Full HD stuff as well.

Read the full news item (http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/723)
I think, that they will use Nvidia's NvPVEnc (which is part of the Force Ware Package), so the same way like Power Director 7 (it uses not only NvPVEnc, but AVIVO for transcoding on Radeons, too).

The real cool news is, that ArcSoft Total Media Theater uses CUDA for upscaling SD movies (they say there is a small problem with the current Catalyst release, which will be fixed soon, so there will be upscaling on Radeons, too).


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