Nvidia 7800 GTX Mpeg Encoding?

[mrchu]

The card has VIVO video capture, but is there any way of using it do hardware encoding? I have a raptor hard drive and 2 other standard hard drives...I keep getting dropped frames so hardware encoding would be great

[Artic_Kid]

The card has VIVO video capture, but is there any way of using it do hardware encoding? I have a raptor hard drive and 2 other standard hard drives...I keep getting dropped frames so hardware encoding would be great

Nvidia separately sells the "Purevideo" software that gets their 7800GTx to do hardware acceleration and relieve the CPU of the burden. (My understanding is that Nvidia is licensing the software technology from elsewhere, and the elsewhere-folks are charging a licensing fee, which Nvidia is passing on to you.) I can't recall if the Purevideo software accelerates in both directions (on decoding and encoding, both), but I suspect that it does both. Anyway, check with the Nvidia website for more info on the Purevideo software.