[Asterisk-Users] faster transcoding possible

[Kris Boutilier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Andrew Kohlsmith
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:18 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] faster transcoding possible
> 
> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 14:11, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> > According to
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1880749,00.asp
> > ATI is delivering a GPU enabled transcoding method that cuts video 
> > transcoding down to 1/5 the time it would take the cpu.  This might 
> > also be applied to audio codecs in theory (I havent looked 
> > into it enough).
> 
{clip}
> 
> Nobody can really truly say until there are some benchmarks 
> run, and nobody's stopping anyone from exerting the effort.  
> It just takes someone curious enough to acutally go do it.
> 

If some curious soul would care to take a stab at porting something then
there is a project at http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/fir/ that implements
real time audio processing, leveraging a GPU as a coprocessor, that
would likely provide the majority of the framework for getting the
blocks of data in and out.

Kris Boutilier
Information Services Coordinator
Sunshine Coast Regional District