9UnknownMen Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Microsoft reveals native Win 7 video transcodingCOMPUTEX 2009: Microsoft?s Murray Vince yesterday revealed that Windows 7 features native support for GPU accelerated video transcoding. Vince announced this interesting development during Nvidia?s pre-Computex shindig, where he joined Drew Henry on stagThe implementation was seamless as Henry simply dragged and dropped the high definition video file onto a Sony Walkman portable media player in Windows Explorer, where it automatically started transferring the file onto the Walkman. The demo included an Ion-based machine and another, similarly specced machine without Nvidia integrated graphics ? the Nvidia-based machine finished the transcoding task around five times faster than the Atom-based PC with Intel integrated graphics, taking just over 1 minute 30 to complete.e. Vince said that you can treat media as easily portable content with Windows 7 ? ?it?s conveniently capable across multiple devices,? he added. With native support for features like this, it?s easy to understand why Huang is so excited about Windows 7. ?DirectX Compute is the most important API in Windows 7,? proclaimed Henry as Vince returned to his seat in the audience. Judging by copius amount of butt kissing by the nVidia guys it seems they think this might be ION's ticket into the netbook market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soumyasch Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Is this feature only available when copying to portable devices? Or can this be used as a regular transcoding app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PL_ Veteran Posted June 2, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 2, 2009 So much for no new features, wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.tony Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 That's a nice feature, even more so for me as I've got an old Pentium 4. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshBluebird Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Hopefully that won't just be limited to the Ion stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebet Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 It is propably up to the driver manufacturer to expose acceleration/DirectX Compute support through their drivers. It'd be awesome if Nvidia would include such a thing for ALL of their graphics card that support such a framework. All CUDA capable cards spring to mind. Edit: Guess my suspicion was correct :) http://www.nvidia.com/object/dxcompute.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br0adband Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 We already knew this was going to happen (since last December) but it's nice to see them actually demoing the feature now. Would be nice to know how to enable it in current builds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Wow, that's really nice :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahhell Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Hopefully this all ties in with the Zune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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