Hello all 'ye of much K-wisdom'
I have a few questions, which may be ULTRA stupid question, but they are - nevertheless - unanswered even after much searching on the internet. So please bear with me, if these are ULTRA stupid questions:
1. Will kvcd/kdvd encoding be boosted by Nvidia 68000 Ultra?
Obviously normally all new exotic hardware demands for special programming, but NVIDIAs own material on the newest version of the NV40 cards (ie the Ultra version) will have an extra chip which will take over much of the CPUs decoding AND encoding of MPEG files. My question is this then; does anybody know how much and if so approximately how much faster will this make encoding of K-vcd / -dvd (on a 2.8Ghz P4 system)?
2. I guess my question is really only based on me not being convinced that the chip 'can take over the workload without the programs being tailored to use the GPUs special features. Is that possible?
3. TO ALL (K-)PROGRAMMERS. If special instructions are necessary - what are the odds that these will be so easy to implement, that most programs (CCE, TMPGENC, asf.) will support the chip within a few months?
4. Finally (a bit off K-topic): other than the fact that ATIs card is cheaper is there any K-reason why I should NOT buy the nvidia card?
THX to the community - and YOUR time if you can give me some pointers here... even though the questions are a bit far out
Regards to all ye pioneers,