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Hardware Encoding on the 6800 Series

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Does anyone have any benchmarks or reviews on this almost forgotten perk to these cards? This after all was my deciding factor (before the doom3 pubs) on Nvidia, yet it is one of those less talked about features.
 
Yah know, I'm not even sure if its working yet. There was no mention of it in the latest WHQL release notes.

Would be nice to know when there gonna flip that little bit on.
 
Sorry, if I was not clear. The 6800 series has multimedia encoding built into the chip. Do not confuse this with multimedia capture, although I believe it helps with that as well. Say for instance you are encoding video into mpg2 or divx from another file type. Instead of running off your CPU the 6800 card has special in-chip hardware routines designed to speed the process along. I think that is what it does, and any help to speed up video encoding is welcome in my box.

From a gamespy article, a brief blurb they had:
"Other improvements include an on-board but separated video-processing unit, which allows for hardware encoding/decoding of MPEG videos, HDTV output, and more, all without using the more traditional processing core of the chip."

From a gear/ign article:
"Last but not least, GeForce 6800 Ultra has an on-chip video processor for hardware acceleration of video encoding and decoding in various formats, including MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, and an integrated TV-encoder for playback directly to a TV, both designed to work with Windows XP Media Center Edition, although you won't have to have a Windows Media Center PC to experience the benefits of these."

Ah leave it to Tom's to give a better detailed description.
Tom's
 
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