News TMPGEnc adds support for Cell video cards

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/04/16/tmpgenc-supports-spursengine/1

Pegasys announces a plug-in for TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress that takes advantage of Toshiba's SpursEngine chip.

 

hmm if speed increases are genuine and can be used for something like handbbrake / staxrip i would be very interested in this

 

Looks interesting but I don't believe it until I've seen it live.
Right now I'm splitting .mov files to .wav and .m2v using Avanti + ffmpeg, then putting them back together using Avidemux. Would it help with that performance? I have to do it quite often in the near future... remember the 405GB of NiN? All of it. Thanks, Apple, for not releasing your stupid codecs for PCs!

 

Perplekks, wouldn't something like Mediacoder be easier?
.MOV is accepted as input, and you can output as most formats.
It's also mostly multithreaded (uses 75% of each of my cores), and fairly easy to use.

 

Isn't that just 36 minutes, 21 seconds??

Looks like some cool tech.
Could you have a few of these spurs engine cards in a machine to do realtime encoding/decoding type tasks in an HTPC?

 

Cheers, badders. But can it take .mov HDV files?

Wait a second... I could just google that myself.

 

You know, it'd be really nice if this had an open source driver.. One of these and a low power dual core or something and it'd make a good accelerator for HD HTPC use.

 

well the card looks to be a 1x PCI-E and the bench says it used cuda and the card.. so the plugin arch is rather flexible in dividing data so i don't see why you couldn't.. i'd be more interested to see if the mother board busses could support the capture card uncompressed hd then forwarding it to 2-4 cards then combining it and putting it on the hard drive without puking and slowing to a crawl.. time to pump up the cooling on that north bridge lol.