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Hardware
CyberLink Uses ATI Card To Transcode Four 1080p Video Files Simultaneously
8:00AM Jason Chen | The fashionable thing these days is to take the tremendous processing power of graphics cards and put them to use when you’re not utilising them to render games. CyberLink, for one, has come up with a pretty ingenous method to take an ATI or NVIDIA card (in their case, the demo was on an ATI Radeon 4850 512MB card) and convert four 1080p MPEG-2 movies into MPEG-4. Simultaneously. As long as you’ve got a pretty fast video card, all you need is a copy of CyberLink PowerDirector 7 and you can be doing this too. We hope this is the kind of thing Apple’s going to be putting into Snow Leopard. [TG Daily] More »
Software
Best Blu-ray 2.0 Player? Could Be Your PC with CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra
2:20AM Wilson Rothman | When we bring up Blu-ray Profile 2.0 with BD-Live, you guys are divided. Some of you say “Who gives a damn?” while others say “PS3 FTW!” But a small minority say that the PS3 doesn’t meet your other hardware requirements. Well now it might not matter: by the end of this month, when CyberLink’s latest PowerDVD Ultra update arrives, you can assemble your own PC-based Blu-ray 2.0 player with whatever video and audio hardware you like. More »
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