Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Avid embracing third party hardware?

I believe Mojo DX provides hardware support for Thin-Raster formats, which
probably adds some performance on output from those formats.

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Dave Spraker <avid@spraker.tv> wrote:

>
>
> Oliver -
>
> Mojo DX provides no additional acceleration as far as I am aware.
>
> On my brief testing on the z800, the system showed about 40% vs. 25% with
> the software only. Also, all processors were being utilized with Nitris DX
> vs. only one with software only - even on rendering.
>
>
> Dave Spraker
> Account Executive & Avid Specialist
> Professional Video and Tape
> 503.810.3642 - cell
> <http://www.spraker.tv/blog/> www.spraker.tv/blog/
>
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> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Avid embracing third party hardware?
>
> Dave,
>
> > I think you underestimate the power of the Nitris DX. There is task
> > negotiation between Nitris, CPU and GPU that it controls.
> > Dave Spraker
>
> Would you clarify? I think we are still just talking about DNxHD decoding
> and raster scaling, with some optimization for when these functions occur
> in
> the pipeline. Right?
>
> Right now I can do 5 or 6 streams of DNxHD145 with 2D PIP in yellow-green
> on
> MC Soft on an 8-core MP. I've gotten colse to this in software-only and
> with
> Mojo DX at full resolution using a 1Beyond 4-core laptop.
>
> When I've done testing with the Nitris DX (which admittedly has been a
> while
> at this point), I got maximum benefit with all one codec and raster format.
> The minute I started mixing thick and thin rasters, HDV and DNxHD, SD and
> HD
> - all on the same timeline - performance advantages of Nitris DX seemed to
> diminish.
>
> I'm not staying there's nothing happening, simply that it's overpriced.
> Avid
> has never been able to clearly market the advantages or even to show basic
> performance benchmarks with and without their hardware.
>
> - Oliver
>
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