[mythtv-users] Mac Mini Video Acceleration Question (h.264)

[Johnny]

> A little more speculation. Or maybe Intel is going to release the
> equivalent of CUDA and ffmpeg is including support for it... Who
> knows? There are at least Windows video encoding software that uses
> the CUDA SDK for off-loading the CPU, but because of the closed source
> architecture, ffmpeg has not so far been interested in including
> support for it (as I understood). I'm not sure if it helps in
> rendering of video, though. Enough...

Obviously they are going to use the newly released OpenCL on x86 SDK
that AMD released
(http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-delivers-and-submits-2009aug04.aspx).
Now you can write your general purpose code in OpenCL for your GPU and
then run it on your CPU. ;-)