ATi R520 to support Hardware MPEG 4 Encoding

[Joe]

The H.264 is a new compression standard designed to be two to tree times more efficient than the MPEG-2 codec that we are using to watch DVDs.

H.264 video will take more space but you will be able to store 30 to 50GB if not even more on HD-DVDs and Blu-ray disks. You need graphics hardware assistance to do the decoding as there is a lot of calculations you need to do in order to have this real-time high bit rate H.264 video decoded. Next generation R520 - aka Fudo - can do it in hardware.

http://theinquirer.net/?article=23527

 

[NickS]

Finally something to compete with nVidia's current, "Pure Video Technology."

 

[FarFarAway]

Cool I heard that but couldn't remember wher the hell I saw it so I'm glad you dug it up Joe. Good work!

 

[ionicle_old]

wow, looks good!

 

[NickS]

Pure Video

Yep. The nVidia "Pure Video" really does help, it's quite suprising!

You know the movies on like ebaumsworld.com or gprime.net are really low-res, but the Pure Video smoothes them right out.

 

[Dav0s]

wow, ill look forward to that when i got a nvidia card

 

[ionicle_old]

and i am goin ATI!!!

 

[FarFarAway]

and i am goin ATI!!!

Yeah but your card don't support that thing Nick was talking about

 

[bloodthirst]

the 6600gt daves getting?