ATi has put a lot of the focus on its AVIVO-technology during the launch of the X1000-series, but despite all the promises it hasn’t been able to display much. Many has been wondering why and recognizes nVidia’s paper launch of PureVideo but at Hexus they’ve tried to dig out the details about AVIVO’s to be or not to be through an interview with Godfrey Cheng from ATi. The interview contains loads of interesting information and among others we get proof of that all the features promised with AVIVO, H.264 acceleration etc., is available in the hardware. The problem is that ATi hasn’t been able to optimize the software for the new architecture.
“Godfrey confirms that the new Avivo hardware isn’t doing accelerated H.264 – either transcode from other formats or even decode – just now, due to driver immaturity and lack of a standard interface for H.264 processing in DirectShow via DXVA.”
At the same time they take a closer look at Anandtech’s comparison of PureVideo and AVIVO. An article which doesn’t match ATi’s tests or information about AVIVO’s performance. In other words this not the last we will hear about AVIVO and we surely hope that ATi can optimize their drivers, making AVIVO ready for battle.
