sneak peak of "sandy bridge's" transcoding engine

[deadrats]

hey guys, i found a video of the upcoming transcoding engine that "sandy bridge" will have:

http://www.movavi.com/videoconverter/

now i must warn you, the site is a tad confusing, as they seem to make somewhat contradictory claims, they claim that their "turbo plug-in" allows intel 2010 processors with hd graphics (this seems to imply clarkdale based cpu's) to offload the decoding of mpeg-2 and h264 to the on die gpu and right below they show 2 graphs of "with" and "without" this "turbo plugin" yet the graph on the left is of a i7 920, which doesn't have an on die gpu.

however someone goofed because if you click on "watch the video" under the you will see a demo of the plug in and the presenter clearly says that the demo is being done on the upcoming "sandy bridge" processor. it looks like it practically doubles encoding performance in the live demo.

if you download the demo of this converter and mess around with it you will note that it appears to be based on the main concept sdk, which was released in july of this year and features the cuda accelerated h264 encoder.

unfortunately this seems to be a rather mediocre implementation of encoder (developers license just what portions of the codec they wish to implement) the more features; the higher the cost, thus these guys appear to license the bare minimum, using the "optimum" preset (configuration is mostly preset based) the speed is incredible but the quality sucks, using the "best" preset the quality is decent and the speed is good, but it can't match the free media coder's cuda encoder.

the software implementation of main concept's h264 encoder, using the "best" preset is quite good, providing excellent quality, unfortunately it's slow as hell, perhaps combining the non gpu accelerated encoder with the "turbo plugin" would provide reasonable performance with excellent quality.

anyway, just wanted to let you guys know that you could see the transcoding engine in action, if anyone is interested.

[RabidDog]

Designed to catch out the unwary

Moreover, Movavi leverages Intel Hyper-Threading technology of Core i3, i5 and i7 allowing CPU to execute multiple software threads at the same time. For example, Quad-Core i7 can simultaneously process up to 8 files using each core's powers.

Does this mean its multicore aware or it can use just a single core?