CUDA - Accelerated encoding for post production

[Wile_E]

I just tried out a new card, GTX 460 with Sony Vegas Pro 10 and TMPGENC encoders and am rather disappointed. Still can't get real-time encoding with 720p material, even when paired up with a quad-core CPU.

What professional alternatives are out there for studio use for faster than real-time encoding to H264 and Blu-ray formats? Toshiba and Leadtek had a SpursEngine card, but I can't find it available for purchase anywhere.

[Cornucopia]

Check all the links in the chain. What's weak? What is the current format that it's decoding?
A Quad RAID 50 ($$$) could possibly help. Batch encoders using a parallel/render farm (parcel out the encoding in small batches each)...

HTH,
Scott

[jagabo]

With Medicoder and no filtering I see about 50 fps while compressing with the CUDA engine (from 1280x720p50 h.264 to 1280x720p50 h.264). About the same with x264 with the veryfast preset (Core 2 Quad 6600).