which ati graphics cards support h.264?

[Panash]

does ati want to sell graphics cards? I just can't find any hard information on their pox ridden excuse for a website, just takes me round in circles, more & more endless marketing bullshit.

having got that rant off my chest, anyone worked out which of their products hardware supports h.264? Radeon I know, Radeon what? X300? 9550 AGP? They make a big thing out of it, pity the website is as clear as mud.

Has anyone stiched together a DVB-S card with one?

PN

[jagabo]

I believe all the X1xxx series cards have AVIVO (part of which is h.264 acceleration).

[Panash]

Thnx for the info.

Very telling "I believe", I think I rest my case here.

'AVIVO' - They need to split the functions of capture & decode support up. Not many folks will want to use the analogue HDTV capture, I wouldn't have thought - the only non copy protected sources will be camcorders, best to stay digital/firewire & doesn't analogue capture of HDTV kinda miss the point - it'll really be 2nd gen & lost its edge. Analogue to MPEG2 made sense, thoses family vid, the old show on VHS that won't get repeated, but analogue conversion to HDTV doesn't.

Funny old war here, there's group of studios, Sony, Time Warner et al, desperately trying to prevent copying, & there's another group out there trying to thwart them, with Ati taking the role of an arms manufacturer.

PN

[jagabo]

Very telling "I believe", I think I rest my case here.

I'm not an expert in ATI cards. All I did was take a quick look at their web site, saw h.264 decoding was part of the AVIVO spec, that all the X1xxxx series cards had "AVIVO display technology", and none of the others (that I looked at) did. So you shouldn't take my lack of knowledge on the subject to be definitive proof that the information isn't available!

[Nelson37]

The AIW 2006 series also have AVIVO.

Where are you seeing info about HDTV analog capture related to AVIVO? Component output is all I am seeing. As for who would want this, ME. This would be the first consumer-priced piece of hardware capable of HD capture thru component.

[edDV]

Thnx for the info.

Very telling "I believe", I think I rest my case here.

'AVIVO' - They need to split the functions of capture & decode support up. Not many folks will want to use the analogue HDTV capture, ...

PN

As far as I know, 'AVIVO' only has h.264 playback acceleration, not yet full hardware playback (no cpu load).

Are you saying you found input encoding support for Y,Pb,Pr?

Full hardware encoding is a few generations out yet.