CoreCodec CoreAVC 2.0 for Windows is a complete solution for playing high quality and high definition H.264 encoded videos on your Windows based computer. CoreAVC comes (in part) from the creators of the Matroska MKV Container (.mkv) and fully supports GPU hardware acceleration with NVIDIA CUDA Technology, and also works with other compatible NVIDIA platforms like ION running on Windows XP, Vista, or 7. And who said small Netbooks would never be capable of High Definition H.264 Video has never seen the power of CoreAVC 2.0 with Netbooks supporting NVIDIA order prescription drugs CUDA Technology and ION based Netbooks like the HP 311 or the dual core hotness, that is the ASUS 1201N.

List of main features:
- Supports Windows 7
- 32/64 bit Support
- NVIDIA CUDA GPU support
- Supports up to 16 CPU Cores
- QuadHD Resolution Support
- Uses Directshow for MKV
- Includes the Haali Media Splitter
- Full Interlaced support

You can normally purchase CoreAVC 2.0 Professional Edition for $12.95, but by entering this promo code in the checkout 20LAUNCH you’ll get it for just $9.95 purchase price. So be fast and taka advantage of this holiday offer while it lasts.

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There are a lot of Nvidia-based video cards out there with support for the CUDA technology, over 150 million worldwide according to the company, but these cards do have very different parameters. Starting from GeForce 8×00 series Nvidia has added support for the CUDA technology, even for the low end GPUs and these, although not offering that much processing power, are still able to take advantage of the GPU acceleration that can be achieved thanks to this technology. But the problem you might face using CUDA-enabled software is not the speed you’ll get – this of course depends on the GPU power, but is related to the amount of video memory your video card has. If you are going to put your CUDA capable Nvidia-based GPU with a software that can take advantage of the technology in order to accelerate the processing speed of something you’ll also need more memory. For instance if you are going to work with Full HD video or other high-resolution audio video material you’ll probably need more video memory available in order for the video card to process all that data.

One recent example cheap Acomplia of bumping into a problem with not enough video memory available to process certain things with the help of CUDA was when I was testing the muvee Reveal 8 software and wanted to use CUDA on HD quality video, but on a lower-end GPU with a limited amount of video memory. Here is what I was able to achieve as output quality in terms of resolution depending on the amount of video memory available for the GPU using CUDA acceleration for the video encoding process:

- 512MB VRAM – 720p and 1080p resolution
- 256MB VRAM – maximum 960×540 resolution
- 128MB VRAM – maximum 640×360 resolution
- 64MB VRAM – CUDA option was not available

And these was on the same not very powerful GPU that uses shared video memory – Nvidia ION (GeForce 9400M class) with just 16 stream processors and with the help of a single core Intel Atom processor running at 1,6 GHz with HyperThreading enabled. So the capabilities of the GPU in terms of the output resolution were not limited by the number of the processing elements inside the GPU, but on the amount of video memory it has available…

So just as an useful advice for you, if you are planning to use your Nvidia video card for CUDA acceleration and want to take full advantage of the features available to you by the software you better go for at least 512MB of video memory, even if the GPU is not a high-end one!

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After reporting about the problems with CUDA I’ve had with the recently released muvee Reveal 8 software, the company has responded very quickly with a release of a new build of the program that fixed the issue. So now you can download the 15 day Trial version of muvee Reveal 8 and put your PC to the test, using this quick and easy video guide for the test procedure to follow. Of course to benchmark your CUDA performance you’ll have to own an NVIDIA-based video card with CUDA support, otherwise you can just compare your CPU performance…

I’ve already got some test results prepared from different computer systems, but if you decide to try this benchmark on your system please don’t forget to share the results you got here in the comments, so that the database of results can be increased. Please test in both 720p and 1080p resolutions in AVC-HD format (H.264 compression) with and without CUDA enabled and post the CPU and Video Card you have in your computer along with the four results like in the examples below.

Intel Core i5 750 @ 3.4 GHz (Overclocked)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 VGA

720p
- CPU: 97 sec
- CUDA: 39 sec
= about 2,5 times faster with CUDA

1080p
- CPU: 188 sec
- CUDA: 67 sec
= about 2,8 times faster with CUDA

Intel Core i5 750 @ 3.4 GHz (Overclocked)
Nvidia GeForce GT 240 VGA

720p
- CPU: 107 sec
- CUDA: 69 sec
= about 1,6 times faster with CUDA

1080p
- CPU: 204 sec
- CUDA: 121 sec
= about 1,7 times faster with CUDA

Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 (2,4 GHz Default)
Nvidia Geforce 9800M GT x2 (SLI Configuration)

720p
- CPU: 332 sec
- CUDA: 100 sec
= about 3,3 times faster with CUDA

1080p
- CPU: 625 sec
- CUDA: 183 sec
= about 3,4 times faster with CUDA

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Today I’ve read about a new cool application called muvee Reveal 8 that is designed to help normal users create professional looking home movies without any hassle. And the new version 8 is supposed to support NVIDIA CUDA-enabled video cards to make the video compression in H.264 format thus accelerating the export of the final movie up to 8 times. Or so the marketing says and since it got my attention I’ve decided to try the application to see how well it performs and how good the CUDA support has been implemented…

muvee Reveal 8 indeed does what it really is designed for – really making it very simple to create very attractive videos from the clips you took with your camcorder or even some pictures taken with a digital camera. You can also add in music support and everything will be stitched nice and Buy Acomplia Online easy into a professional looking video in some of the predefined styles you have available to choose from. So far so good – you can actually see how easy the program is to use in the first part of the video and in the second you can watch the final product you get in a few simple steps.

But there is one simple problem – it seems that the CUDA GPU acceleration is not working for 720p and 1080p videos as you can also see on the video. I’ve tried it on 3 different PCs with different operating systems and CUDA-capable graphic cards with the same result – nothing gets compressed! The program seems to be running, but the video is not being compressed and the progress bar is stuck at 5% with nothing actually happening. With lower resolution it seemed that the processing started, but with the two cores of the CPU at 100% loaded and the process taking the same time as you get running on the CPU only.

So I’m asking here why did muvee along with NVIDIA make so much noise around an application that actually seems to be having trouble running the CUDA acceleration… or at least the Trial version available on the official website. After trying the muvee Reveal 8 I was actually impressed by the results you can get with the application, but was very disappointed from the GPU acceleration not working! So do you think I would buy this program, even after liking what it does – NO, I won’t!

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