Intervideo H.264 codec gets multi core support

Posted on Monday, January 23 2006 @ 21:45 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD Zone has learned that Intervideo is adding multi core support to their H.264 codec which will greatly benefit users with dual core and multi CPU systems.

InterVideo's H.264 codec technology leverages highly advanced algorithms to deliver superior quality and performance on today's personal computers. One of the key new features is the ability to divide the decoding tasks among several hardware cores and hardware threads on both the CPU and the GPU. Using traditional single thread decoding techniques, H.264 with high definition would not be feasible on today's personal computers because much of the overall processing power is unused. InterVideo's H.264 codec partitions the decoding tasks through algorithm and data decomposition into multiple threads to use all the processing power of the dual core and hyper threading technologies from Intel and AMD CPUs, as well as the GPU acceleration from NVIDIA graphics hardware.

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