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Badaboom - Opinions?

I've tried it, terrible app. Even worse, you have to pay for it. I'd rather have a free encoder that supports pretty much every format that's slower. (not with multiple encodes though)

Didn't know that the quality was worse. That seals the deal if the format support, reliability and cost didn't already put you off.
 
Exactly what I was thinking folks :) As I said, installed the trial but can't use it as it won't do MPEG4.

About the only benefit is it runs via Cuda on the GPU which may be useful to people who need as many CPU cycles as possible for heavy multitasking situations.

IMHO, for them to release it with such limited support for EXTREMELY common and popular formats is a complete joke.
 
I tried it a while ago....it made a complete dog's breakfast of everything I ran through it, sound sync issues, hard-encoded pauses, artifacts, a general mess.


But then, that's most if not all transcoding software I've tried in windows. Gimme mplayer/mencoder any day.
 
It might be rubbish at the moment, but the potential of this is quite exciting IMO. Won't be too long before someone makes a decent encoder which runs on the GPU. Encoding is inherently a pretty parallelisable task, so doing it on the GPU could lead to huge performance gains if it's done properly.
 
I just can't help but think this was produced to 'do it first,' in terms of releasing a GPU-assisted encoding program. I'm sure there will be a product with some decent functionality comparable to fully established CPU encoders in terms of functionality and quality, dunno if it'll be these guys though.
 
Lightnix said:
I just can't help but think this was produced to 'do it first,' in terms of releasing a GPU-assisted encoding program. I'm sure there will be a product with some decent functionality comparable to fully established CPU encoders in terms of functionality and quality, dunno if it'll be these guys though.
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ATI had one years ago.

Seems it will get a nice big update to bring it up to speed next month.
 
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