[PLUG-AV] Streaming Tests

[Tim]

:-(
My Firewire cable finally came today, only to discover that Firewire
out only works for captured stuff, and not real time. I learnt
something new today, lots of newer HDD based cameras won't do
"firewire-in" which appears to be a prereq for Live firewire capture.
Oh well, I have a firewire cable but not able to play with streaming live.

Tim

On 6 April 2011 11:21, James Bromberger <james at rcpt.to> wrote:
> On 6/04/2011 8:08 AM, Leon Wright wrote:
>
> Just thinking out aloud, is there anyway to take advantage of the GPU for
> encoding? With say CUDA or OpenCL?
>
> Just looking around I came across Badaboom on Windows, a commercial product,
> and a comparison of it on Anandtech:
>     http://www.anandtech.com/show/2586/5
>
> Kind of shows that for average Graphics cards, its no better than an average
> CPU.
>
> I also came across a thread that the x264 project (look on videolan.org) had
> someone spend some time on the idea (through Anvil Studios), and they gave
> up.
>
> Also a comment on whirlpool said:
>
> PS there is no doubt it will be useful for decoding (which is what
> Cyberlink, et al are using it for), but for encoding you have to realise
> encoding is not a completely "parallel" process (in other words, at some
> point, 500 GPU/CPU's won't be any faster then 100GPU/CPU's), current
> macroblock data relying on previous macroblock data, etc
>
> And there were comments from an Intel engineer saying something similar -
> its not truly parallel because some parts of the scene being compressed
> depend upon other parts. But of course, Intel want to sell another CPU... :)
>
> Hm.
>
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