Music compression on the GPU

[Jan Claeys]

Op zaterdag 21-03-2009 om 16:55 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Liam
Proven:
> Has anyone tried to use any of this new GPGPU and CUDA type tech to
> write an MP3/Ogg/whatever encoder for sound samples that uses the GPU
> to do the heavy lifting instead of the CPU?
> 
> I spent much of last summer re-ripping my CD collection at high
> quality. Then my server died and when recovering from my backups the
> backup drive died too. I am looking at spending weeks doing it all
> again.
> 
> But it seems to me something almost ideal for GPGPU use, no?

On a machine that's not too old, it takes *much* longer to read from the
CD than to encode to vorbis (or mp3), so making the encoding faster will
gain you almost nothing (encoding is done while the PC is waiting for
your cd-drive).

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Jan Claeys