ATI Avivo HD Video Converter Overview
ATI Avivo HD is AMD’s offering for advanced high-definition video transcoding. It delivers full HD disc playback with hardware-based Unified Video Decoding capability and can use its graphic card line’s built-in HDMI with multi-channel HD surround audio to output high-quality videos. Avivo HD incorporates ATI’s Stream technology to accelerate the conversion of standard and HD video into multiple formats for use on different consumer electronics devices like the iPhone, PSP, and Zune.
Easy Setup Wizard menu
To access Avivo, users will need to open ATI’s Catalyst Control Center and pick the “Easy Wizard Setup” option instead of the usual advanced settings option. This leads to the screen above that has a couple different wizard options to open Avivo as well as configure display settings. To open Avivo, select the ATI Avivo Video Converter option and press Go.
Step 1 screen – select input source and output folder
Avivo HD is a non-flashy, simplified transcoding application that uses a two-step process to walk consumers through transcoding their original video files into different formats that can be used in a variety of devices. The first screen you arrive at after opening Avivo has options for entering the location of the input file as well as setting the output folder to the user’s desired location. Users can also set Avivo to generate auto-numbered files.
Step 1 screen with input file added and output folder selected
This is what the Step 1 screen looks like after you add your input file location and set the output folder location. Users should also notice that Avivo HD provides some basic information about the input file including bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, resolution, file size, and duration.
Step 2 screen – Configure output video format and quality settings
The second step in the process is configuring your video output options. Avivo supports a wide range of output options including WMV, H.264 (1080p and 720), MPEG-2 (1080p and 720), MPEG-1, video CD, super video CD, MPEG-4, and DVD. Users can also select the quality of their videos to help manage file size better. File sizes are always dependent on how high the quality settings are.
Step 2, screen – Confirm video format, output quality, and output file name
After users select their video formats and output quality, they will also need to rename the output file unless then want to keep the same name as the original input file. If everything looks correct, users can press the next button to start transcoding their video.
That’s as simple as it gets folks. There aren’t any video editing options with Avivo HD, which is a bit disappointing considering the other options available on the market – even free open source options have more features. But, for a free application, it definitely should be considered by those who own ATI graphics cards. It does the job for basic video transcoding and works quickly thanks to ATI Stream. Later in the review, we will discuss the image quality we noticed from our outputted videos we used for benchmarking.
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Your
Please change the tile.
Your article is not about a comparison of Stream and CUDA performance, it is the difference between two software implementations utilising Stream and CUDA.
These technologies allow you to parallelise your algorithms, to imply that one technology performs ,as you essentially say, ‘better quality maths’ than the other is ignorant.
Please do not misdirect readers like this.
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Joe Bloggs
Please change you word.
Your
Please change you word.
Your comment is not about a reply to the article, it is a quantification of how butthurt you are.
These new breakthrows allow us to see how badly you are spell ,as you essentially try to use ‘larger words’ but not good at English.
Please do not obfuscate readers’ thoughtings like this.
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Bloe Joggs
damn dude, look at your own
damn dude, look at your own english, it’s absolutely dreadful!
Ya dude, your an idiot, your
Ya dude, your an idiot, your article is misleading. For sure!
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You are comparing two cards,
You are comparing two cards, one is nearly a year older than the other one, its elementary that the new one is going to win. This review is biased
Why are you not comparing the
Why are you not comparing the same frame in the outputs? How can you do a comparison of different frames and make a decision on differences in quality?
My personal gaming research
My personal gaming research team has found nVIDIA’s CUDA technology to be superior, but they compared current GPUs, not GPUs with a manufacturing time gap.
This is a very interesting
This is a very interesting article to contribute to my PC Hardware class, as I’m currently in a Network Admin program in Vermont. Please keep up the good work guys I love your site, and you have been very helpful over the last several semesters.
For BitCoin Minners AMD GPUs
For BitCoin Minners AMD GPUs faster than Nvidia GPUs!
Why?
Firstly, AMD designs GPUs with many simple ALUs/shaders (VLIW design) that run at a relatively low frequency clock (typically 1120-3200 ALUs at 625-900 MHz), whereas Nvidia’s microarchitecture consists of fewer more complex ALUs and tries to compensate with a higher shader clock (typically 448-1024 ALUs at 1150-1544 MHz). Because of this VLIW vs. non-VLIW difference, Nvidia uses up more square millimeters of die space per ALU, hence can pack fewer of them per chip, and they hit the frequency wall sooner than AMD which prevents them from increasing the clock high enough to match or surpass AMD’s performance. This translates to a raw ALU performance advantage for AMD:
An old AMD Radeon HD 6990: 3072 ALUs x 830 MHz = 2550 billion 32-bit instruction per second
A New Nvidia GTX 590: 1024 ALUs x 1214 MHz = 1243 billion 32-bit instruction per second
This approximate 2x-3x performance difference exists across the entire range of AMD and Nvidia GPUs. It is very visible in all ALU-bound GPGPU workloads such as Bitcoin, password bruteforcers, etc.
Secondly, another difference favoring Bitcoin mining on AMD GPUs instead of Nvidia’s is that the mining algorithm is based on SHA-256, which makes heavy use of the 32-bit integer right rotate operation. This operation can be implemented as a single hardware instruction on AMD GPUs (BIT_ALIGN_INT), but requires three separate hardware instructions to be emulated on Nvidia GPUs (2 shifts + 1 add). This alone gives AMD another 1.7x performance advantage (~1900 instructions instead of ~3250 to execute the SHA-256 compression function).
Combined together, these 2 factors make AMD GPUs overall 3x-5x faster when mining Bitcoins!
Fucking plagerism. Copy/paste
Fucking plagerism. Copy/paste from some other source, no citation or credit. Your education should be shredded and flushed down the toilet. Here is where you copied it from for people who want to read from someone with actual knowledge and not just ctrl+c —> ctrl+v.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU_mines_faster_than_a_CPU
You plagerized me. I
You plagerized me. I complained about someone else who copied something and posted a link. All you did was change the link. You are a loser and the worst scum on the internet.
Why are we bitching about
Why are we bitching about plagiarism? If i wanted to make sure his info was correct i would’ve looked it up myself. I could care less if it was “plagiarized” as long as the information was correct.