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Title: This seems like a good thing...
Post by: MrC on January 14, 2013, 03:37:36 pm

I don't know much about this stuff, but this seems like it can't be bad:

   http://www.anandtech.com/show/6665/intels-quick-sync-coming-soon-to-your-favorite-open-source-transcoding-applications- (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6665/intels-quick-sync-coming-soon-to-your-favorite-open-source-transcoding-applications-)

Title: Re: This seems like a good thing...
Post by: glynor on January 14, 2013, 05:33:09 pm

QuickSync is pretty junky in the quality department.

Tech Report did a comparison (which wasn't the best in the rigorous quality department itself either) a while back which showed this.  It is quite fast, but it is essentially a black box with no control over quality settings.

Still, for some needs, you don't much care and just want it to be fast.  So, generally, I'm with you.  Not a bad thing at all.

Title: Re: This seems like a good thing...
Post by: glynor on January 15, 2013, 09:56:18 am

http://techreport.com/review/23324/a-look-at-hardware-video-transcoding-on-the-pc

Title: Re: This seems like a good thing...
Post by: MrC on January 15, 2013, 12:49:15 pm

The point that stuck out to me like a sore thumb:

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The unfortunate truth is that, right now, hardware-accelerated video transcoding on the PC is a mess.