So How Does Hardware Encoding Of Divx Work On The X800

So-Unreal · Jul 26, 2004, 01:09 AM

the best thing about the new ati cards to me is the fact that they can hardware encode into divx. I would love to know how this works? i dont see anything about this in any threads or reviews. So whats the deal. How do i use something think VirtualDubMod with the X800???

MindlessOath · Jul 27, 2004, 02:51 AM

hardware encoding of divx works like this... it reduces CPU cycles when u use a prefered player that utilizies the architechure for that. ie divx player from www.divx.com soon once its all aproved the same thing will be for WMV but that will be in the drivers, so it will be universal. unless ms decides to put it into there player (which both may have to be done?). however encoding will not work, ONLY decoding. there are no white papers detailing specs about any of this, nothing for nvidia or ati and this feature has supposedly been there since r300, programable video encoder or whatever its called.... good luck finding out, but your going to have to talk to some pritty high up people that know what your talking about. its basically a feature thats probably to developers who want to sign an NDA and use the feature. whowever i dont know.

So-Unreal · Jul 27, 2004, 11:29 PM

and that is the only reason I was going to upgrade to a X800. I guess im going to be holding on to this 9800 Pro for some time to come

MindlessOath · Jul 29, 2004, 12:02 AM

ya they have the same features of what you talk about above. the nvidia solution JUST added it to their lineup in nv40, but also the same problems too. so no need to upgrade video card at all.. howeveer a processor upgrade will definatly be a great upgrade to help faster encoding. i went from 1.4 to 2ghz AMD cpu and got a great increase in encoding, not to mention the extra extentions that athlonXP have over the old thunderbirds.... you also seem to have only pc2100 memory and only 256mb of it.... strongly suggest faster memory and at least 512mb memory ... possibly a new motherboard with an nforce2chipset, as they benifit the most from high speed memory.... the cost well.. a 2400cpu is pritty cheap, you can probably go a lot higher, for the price, get something with 333mhz or 400mhz bus cpu (if ya upgrade mobo that is)... and 3200DDR would be good enough, two sticks of 256 will give you 512mb for a cheap price and dual channell memory on an nforce2 board.

So-Unreal · Jul 29, 2004, 05:15 AM

oh thats my old pc.... had that one before the 9700's came out. im at AMD 2300MHz' 1GB of PC3200, 700GB of HD space, 9800 pro, Abit Nf2plus lots more....

MindlessOath · Jul 29, 2004, 07:04 AM

cool.. then u should be fine :P only upgrade for you would be athlon FX then :P

Jul 26, 2004, 01:09 AM	#1
So-Unreal DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 56 Rep Power: 0	So How Does Hardware Encoding Of Divx Work On The X800 the best thing about the new ati cards to me is the fact that they can hardware encode into divx. I would love to know how this works? i dont see anything about this in any threads or reviews. So whats the deal. How do i use something think VirtualDubMod with the X800???

Jul 27, 2004, 02:51 AM	#2
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	hardware encoding of divx works like this... it reduces CPU cycles when u use a prefered player that utilizies the architechure for that. ie divx player from www.divx.com soon once its all aproved the same thing will be for WMV but that will be in the drivers, so it will be universal. unless ms decides to put it into there player (which both may have to be done?). however encoding will not work, ONLY decoding. there are no white papers detailing specs about any of this, nothing for nvidia or ati and this feature has supposedly been there since r300, programable video encoder or whatever its called.... good luck finding out, but your going to have to talk to some pritty high up people that know what your talking about. its basically a feature thats probably to developers who want to sign an NDA and use the feature. whowever i dont know. __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Jul 29, 2004, 12:02 AM	#4
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	ya they have the same features of what you talk about above. the nvidia solution JUST added it to their lineup in nv40, but also the same problems too. so no need to upgrade video card at all.. howeveer a processor upgrade will definatly be a great upgrade to help faster encoding. i went from 1.4 to 2ghz AMD cpu and got a great increase in encoding, not to mention the extra extentions that athlonXP have over the old thunderbirds.... you also seem to have only pc2100 memory and only 256mb of it.... strongly suggest faster memory and at least 512mb memory ... possibly a new motherboard with an nforce2chipset, as they benifit the most from high speed memory.... the cost well.. a 2400cpu is pritty cheap, you can probably go a lot higher, for the price, get something with 333mhz or 400mhz bus cpu (if ya upgrade mobo that is)... and 3200DDR would be good enough, two sticks of 256 will give you 512mb for a cheap price and dual channell memory on an nforce2 board. __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Jul 29, 2004, 07:04 AM	#6
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	cool.. then u should be fine :P only upgrade for you would be athlon FX then :P __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Jul 27, 2004, 11:29 PM	Thread Starter #3
So-Unreal DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 56 Rep Power: 0	and that is the only reason I was going to upgrade to a X800. I guess im going to be holding on to this 9800 Pro for some time to come

Jul 29, 2004, 05:15 AM	Thread Starter #5
So-Unreal DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 56 Rep Power: 0	oh thats my old pc.... had that one before the 9700's came out. im at AMD 2300MHz' 1GB of PC3200, 700GB of HD space, 9800 pro, Abit Nf2plus lots more....