first open source cuda accelerated apps

[jagabo]

MediaCoder (cuda) did a pretty poor job compared to RipBot (x264). Mediacoder lost most of the film grain leading to obvious posterization artifacts and creepy crawlies in smooth gradients. It also shows bad "beating" (a clean I frame followed by degrading image quality through the following B/P frames, then a sudden cleanup at the next I frame, etc.). The settings used were different though and x264 overshot the requested bitrate by about 15 percent.

By the way, when I tested Mediacoder a few months ago on my Intel Q6600 and Nvidia 8600 GT I found the computer was pretty much unusable while encoding. Mediacoder was sucking up so much of the GPU that there wasn't much left for other apps. Do you see the same thing?

[ulapines]

Jagabo, thanks for your comments.
I'm waiting for some more opinions before
I consider how to move on with shrinking my blu-rays to an acceptable quality in reasonable time.
And no, I have no problems doing other work on my computer at the same time.
It maybe depends on which version of MediaCoder being used.