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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