mark 9-20-10 on your calenders...

[deadrats]

because that is the day main concept introduces their cuda accelerated h264 encoder at the nvidia tech conference:

http://www.mainconcept.com/press/single-view/article/will-present-latest-gpu-cuda-enco...onference.html

they have a nice pdf with some performance comparisons and supposedly using a gts 250 (a card that costs about $100) it encodes faster than an i7 980x (6 core, 12 thread cpu, $1000) and because speed is nothing without quality they have a comparison showing that the psnr is almost the same value for the 2 encodes.

http://www.mainconcept.com/products/sdks/gpu-acceleration/cuda-h264avc.html

when you consider how many apps license main concepts encoder, such as tmpg express, this should be great news for most members of this forum.

[jagabo]

I hope they can deliver the goods.

[edDV]

I bet the direct cost will be on the high end. I'll be looking forward to testing the demos.