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

tomos · 11 Dec 2008 at 01:21

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! :mad:

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

gdpayne · 11 Dec 2008 at 08:52

It seems as if they just rereleased the old Avivo app, no stream upgrades etc.

No idea why, but they had better get their finger out and release a proper app soon or they are going to suffer a world of pain in the press. They promised something that used the GPGPU power, not something that's less impressive than CPU encoders.

LeJosh · 11 Dec 2008 at 09:05

You said yourself it can't use it then you moan it having no point? Foot, bullet, self?

HEADRAT · 11 Dec 2008 at 09:08

Yes it semes utterly pointless, doesn't seem to use the GPU at all and doesn't seem to work with any files I have, just a bit of a joke really.

HEADRAT

reflux · 11 Dec 2008 at 10:00

I'm guessing the 8.12s merely enabled this, there's a review over at that censored hardware site, published yesterday, that looked at the performance of Avivo and it's quite good. Says something about it being a seperate download.

HEADRAT · 11 Dec 2008 at 10:14

You can get it here:-

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=vista64/common-vista64

for some reason it's labelled up with:-

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

I guess they mean X1000 and above!

I've tried it and it doesn't seem to support any popular file types, I tried to convert an MPEG2 to an IPOD video:-

what I got out was completely unusable.

gareth170 · 11 Dec 2008 at 10:27

it works for me but it doesn't use the gpu, it only uses 2 cores of my cpu.

Mr Paul · 11 Dec 2008 at 10:30

Yeah, only CPU.

Lanz · 11 Dec 2008 at 10:44

Maybe it does only work with X1000 products, and that wasnt a typo....

HEADRAT · 11 Dec 2008 at 10:46

Just a thought, you could use GPU-Z to see if it uses the GPU cores.

HEADRAT

Mr Paul · 11 Dec 2008 at 12:25

I did and it didn't

LoadsaMoney · 11 Dec 2008 at 14:47

Didn't the 8.12's just enable the Stream, and the new convertor for the 4 series would follow.

HEADRAT · 11 Dec 2008 at 15:11

Surely this would indicate that it is 8.12

LoadsaMoney · 11 Dec 2008 at 15:17

Yep, but im assuming thats the same old one, as it says it will only work with x1000 series still.

HEADRAT · 11 Dec 2008 at 15:21

Just dunno, I had enough problems just installing the 8.12 driver to really care

EvilOne · 11 Dec 2008 at 15:27

Some reviews (which seem'd to have it working), said it encoded about 7.5x quicker then just with a CPU.

LoadsaMoney · 11 Dec 2008 at 15:57

Apparently it is out, you have to switch to basic mode in the CCC, its not that seperate download one for x1000's.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10892&Itemid=1

tomos · 11 Dec 2008 at 16:03

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?)

HEADRAT · 11 Dec 2008 at 16:23

You need to install it seperately, if it's not the one above I don't have a clue where it is.

SlyReaper · 11 Dec 2008 at 16:25

I've tried going in basic mode, but there's no option to use avivo.