ATI Avivo encoding five times faster than traditional means

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ATIs avivo feature, which comes standard on all the new X1000 series boards, can encode videos with the ATI Xcode encoding program up to 5 times faster than traditional means, as it uses the graphic card to crunch the numbers. Xcode beta version supports the following files: MPEG 1/2, VCD, S-VCD, DVD, MPEG 4 (DivX Compatible), WMV9, Portable Media Center, H.264 (AVI), MPEG-4 (Sony PSP Compatible Video), H.264 (MP4 Apple iPod Compatible Video). This should be a strong selling point for video editors, PSP and IPod video owners. The only downside, it is not available to the public yet.

Source: chip.de (german)