VLC Cuda support possibility for recording or encoding h264

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VLC Cuda support possibility for recording or encoding h264

Postby hiighdeff » 24 Feb 2009 14:58

Hello,

The interrest of NVIDIA CUDA technology which use GPU (parllel tread) instead of CPU (single tread) for encoding HD video (h264) has been clearly established.

Why not integrating possibility to use CUDA in VLC encoding?

I think this new feature is much more than needed (ffmpeg seems to have understood that)

So it is a dream i want to be true.

Thanks,

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Re: VLC Cuda support possibility for recording or encoding h264

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 24 Feb 2009 15:04

CUDA is not integrated in FFmpeg, and I doubt x264 will integrate a vendor-specific code.
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Re: VLC Cuda support possibility for recording or encoding h264

Postby DGMurdockIII » 08 Mar 2009 21:16

why cant vlc enable CUDA in the player and not have to waite for FFmpeg or x264 to do somthing

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Re: VLC Cuda support possibility for recording or encoding h264

Postby VLC_help » 09 Mar 2009 16:39

CUDA isn't some flag you can just turn on compile time. You have rewrite decoders if you want to use CUDA in them. And it isn't trivial task.

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Re: VLC Cuda support possibility for recording or encoding h264

Postby DGMurdockIII » 09 Mar 2009 20:15

yes i now but it something that should be started bow rather than later

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Re: VLC Cuda support possibility for recording or encoding h264

Postby VLC_help » 10 Mar 2009 16:06

Personally I would wait for OpenCL because it works on all GPU and OSes. CUDA is mostly NVIDIA only.

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Re: VLC Cuda support possibility for recording or encoding h264

Postby Faldegast » 27 Mar 2009 20:56

There are a few time-consuming algorithms like DCT that could probably be moved into a library that can use different backens. Not all parts of coding/decoding are better dune in the GPU... Such a library could support CUDA, OpenCL and various other hardware platforms. On Playstation 3 one may prefer to have a library optimized for CELL.


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