ATi and their stream encoding? just a load of nonce then?

[tomos]

it's not anywhere in the catalyst and the only one for download that i can see on their site is here

Avivo Video Converter*
*Avivo Video Converter will only work
with X1000 series products

x1000!? which cant use stream. installed it anyway and have no idea what formats it accepts. doesnt take AVS, doesnt take matroska, dont have any avi's to test it with.... oh, and it doesnt accept VOBs or M2TS either.

fantastic!

was there any point to this stream thing of theirs at all???

 

[tomos]

did go to the basic view but nothing was there. people from anandtech advise the same thing. it looks like you have to download it (if not, why is it there on the same page as the catalyst download?)

 

[tomos]

nope. there is a quide on ati's site on where to find it, but only shows up after installing that seperate avivo download (which doesnt use the gpu)

ATi have screwed the pooch somewhere. i've raised a fault ticket with them to see what they do

 

[tomos]

did you have avivo installed from before?

 

[tomos]

seems to be loads of forums with threads like this (only a few started by me :O )

loads feel ripped off by ATi and all their promises. some seem to think it works in vista 32 bit but isn't ready for 64 bit yet?

 

[tomos]

People read something as simple as "8.12 brings with it support for stream and support for Avivo to use the gpu"

and we misread that how? 8.12 doesnt include avivo, the one for download doesnt use the GPU so ATi havent givent what they promised

simple

 

[tomos]

ok, installed the betas instead of the finals (file is larger).

using avivo now and GPU-Z shows 15-25% GPU usage. encode looks like carp though since you cant give it enough bitrate to make it any good (i mean a 7gig mpeg2 file compressed to a 300meg divx?), no option to go above that