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Dan Lewis wrote:
Yes as i was writing that i was wandering what compression was available - x264 i will have a look at it now :) thxYep, I believe that NVidia, and AMD I think have got Windows apps out there that take care of compression on the GPU, haven't heard of anything for Linux yet, but I believe there are some tools coming out to enable GPU computing. I also have a feeling there are devices out there that will do h264 (x264) encoding in the chipset, but I dare say they're not cheap.as for something powerful enough to do it ... come cloud computing pick up breaches and pick up the slack ;) - oh but the compression would have to be done on site ummm ... is that kind of compression something a gpu would be better at rather then a cpu? i have a vague memory that gpus handled massive quantities of simple calculations faster then cpus and cpus the opposite (that is a very old memory so dont know if i am speaking truth here).
Maybe as machines get faster, CPUs get more and more cores etc on the fly compression might be possible, although saying that, I'm happy to leave the PC chugging away compressing video.
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