{"id":192,"date":"2012-05-09T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2012-05-09T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T07:48:12","slug":"gpu-snake-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"GPU Snake-Oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not Linux-related this time&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I should confess that I actually do use Windows 7 frequently, for HD Video processing and editing using Sony Vegas Pro and Cineform (on a stand-alone system), and for colour slide restoration using Photoshop (Win7 on VMware, on Linux)..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The reason is that &#8211; simply &#8211; there is no equivalent quality software available for Linux..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gimp is good, but not <em>that<\/em> good, and Kdenlive, Open Movie Editor, etc. are not stable, or sufficiently functional..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And no &#8211; I don&#8217;t wish to pay out thousands for a copy of Avid for Linux!<\/p>\n<p>I have had recent experience of so-called GPU options with several video processing software products (running on Win7), but &#8211; sadly &#8211; in each case (and with a fairly decent video card, from NVIDIA..) the results have been embarrassingly poor..\u00a0\u00a0 In each case, I reverted to CPU-only, and the performance was improved again..<\/p>\n<p>Now there is an article that echoes this sentiment:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/128681-the-wretched-state-of-gpu-transcoding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/128681-the-wretched-state-of-gpu-transcoding\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/128681-the-wretched-state-of-gpu-transcoding<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is annoying &#8211; to say the least &#8211; and has caused many people to (effectively) waste a lot of time and effort trying to make something work that has been trumpeted as a significant performance enhancement for the companies&#8217; software products, but in practice ends up being <strong>worse<\/strong> in performance terms..<\/p>\n<p>This brings back memories of the so-called &#8216;memory-enhancement&#8217; products back in the early days of MS Windows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Linux-related this time&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I should confess that I actually do use Windows 7 frequently, for HD Video processing and editing using Sony Vegas Pro and Cineform (on a stand-alone system), and for colour slide restoration using Photoshop (Win7 on VMware, on Linux)..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The reason is that &#8211; simply &#8211; there is no equivalent quality software available <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=192\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-performance-2","category-win-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}