i recently was exited to use badaboom to convert video using my graphics cards it has been a long time waiting but today i have hit another wall
i currently pride myself on having what is seen as a high performance machine with performance being my number 1 priority however i was disheartened when i went to convert AVCHD footage, from my HD-Cam on my 2 8800GTX OC2 cards, and test out the horsepower available to be fobbed off with
"Currently, a G84 card or better is required to convert this video"
surely, in saying better my cards should more than qualify no ? .. lol, the market this product is catering to is alreayd small enough without limiting its use to an already small range of CUDA enabled cards, i sinserly hope that this will be worked upon for the full version
so far i have converted ... NOTHING in badaboom, not because i don't want to but noting is supported in the beta (avi, which 90% of my files are) or I'm told my cards just arnt good enough, and to me that just seems wrong, the g80 series still owns a large chunk of the Nvidia's cards sold to date, and do out any 9XXX series and some of the 2XX series too
so whats the hold up badaboom... not exactly as bish-bash-bosh as the brilliant video adverts portray
maybe in the small corner of the video it should say that not all CUDA cards will convert everything as said
Heres hoping, i really want to love this product help me out !
Love and metal
Luke
Great information. I have
Great information. I have used badaboom for video convertion from digital cameras. And Its results was best than other converters.
Badaboom has a couple requirements you should know up front: Firstly, you’ll need a CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) nVidia GPU in your system to do the heavy lifting; that’s any GPU from the G8X series or later. Secondly, as with most such media converters, it works only with non-copy-protected videos—meaning home movies, DRM-free recordings you’ve made from a TV tuner, and DRM-free video from the Internet.
Have the requirement, but still no joy..
I'm running Badaboomit on my laptop, with a G86 M GPU, and it tells me that I need a G84+ to decode h.264. I know decoding works on my laptop (it plays bluray disks perfectly), but I'm guessing the M on the end is throwing it off.
8600GT G84 card?
Is the 8600GT a G84 card and can it encode m2ts files? My 8800GTX cannot encode m2ts files as I believe it's just a G80 card.
Regards,
Treadmill
nVidia 8800GTX 768MB
Vista Home Premium 64-bit
4GB RAM
Re: G84+ cards only ?
In the current version of Badaboom, H264 content (which includes AVCHD) is decoded with the NVIDIA hardware and not our CUDA codec technology. Therefore it is only available to those cards that can support decode of H264 video (G84 and newer). We will be adding more CPU decoders in future versions of Badaboom (v 1.1) for better input support meaning AVI/DIVX/XVID and 264 files on cards that do not support H264 decode. Thank you for your interest!
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Does this mean that once badaboomit supports the codec the conversion will only be done via CPU like all other encoders ?, sorry if i have mis-understood my overall knowledge of codec architecture is limited
love and metal
luke
Exact same problem!!!
I have a 8800 GTS 640 and it gave me the G84+ cards only BS!
I heard about this product from AnandTeach and it started to make me drool over potential performance -- http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3339 from the article "the GTX 280 is around 40% faster than encoding on Intel's fastest CPU alone. In the best case scenario however, the GTX 280 can complete the encoding task in 1/10th the time. We're not sure where a true apples-to-apples comparison would end up, but somewhere between those two extremes is probably a good guesstimate."
I wanted to test the performance of this product. I hope this product can walk the walk (only if we could actually test it) and support vast array of codecs like ffmpeg or mencoder in the linux world.
same problem
I have a 8800GTS and of course the same problem. While the Beta 1 crashed every time, I tried to open a H264 file in Badaboom, the second Beta says that it's "Currently" not supported with my card. The questin is: What exactly does "currently" mean? Will it be supportet in the future?