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Another CUDA video editing app launches
Posted by The Right Guy in Hardware, Nvidia, Windows on April 10th, 2009
LoiLoScope joins a growing group of applications
Japanese LoiLo Inc has joined the so far small group of companies making video applications that take advantage of Nvidia’s CUDA and GPGPU processing which helps speed up the whole process of rendering video, especially in the case of HD content.
We’d never heard of LoiLo Inc prior to this announcement, but we quickly downloaded the preview version called LoiLoScope Mars which allows you to check out most of the features of what Super LoiLoScope has to offer.
The user interface is very different from what we’ve come to expect from video editing software, but it only takes a couple of minutes to get used to. You simply drop all the files you want to use, alongside any of the fairly basic text or graphics effects on the desktop of the application. It’s easy to zoom in and out here and the CUDA acceleration really seems to help here. You can also add a few effects in real time to your videos at this stage. Once you’ve got all the content sorted out, you simply drag the files over to the time line editor and put everything in the order you want it to come out.
The free version doesn’t support HD output, but it will upload your content directly to YouTube for you. There are also presets for exporting your video to a wide range of devices such iPhone, iPod, phones, PSP, PS3, DVD etc. If you just want to save your work on your computer, then you can chose to do so in AVI, MOV, WMV and MPEG-4, although only MPEG-4 supports CUDA acceleration at the moment.
LoiLo claims that when you’re editing AVCHD content in 1080p the performance boost using CUDA is as much as 10 times compared to just using the CPU for rendering the video. However, Super LoiLoScope lacks many of the more advanced features most people would want for their video editing application these days and it’s really more of a “fun” application that something that could be used for serious video editing. However, at US$69 (€52/£47) it’s not terribly expensive and if you don’t have very high requirements with regards to what you can do with your home videos, but rather want a simple, easy to use application, then it might be for you.
You can find more details here, as well as download the free LoiLoScope Mars version here
Nvidia response to Intel’s MCP79 claims
Posted by The Right Guy in Hardware, Intel, Nvidia on April 7th, 2009
Intel was not completely honest
Following Intel’s anti-MCP79 (Geforce 9400M) presentation, we decided to ask Nvidia for an opinion and we got one. Nvidia mostly agrees with our comments in the story but at the same time, it underlines that the comparison that Intel did was quite misleading.
They are comparing GM45 with dual channel memory vs. MCP79MVL with single channel memory, and GM45, as Intel’s top SKU, is compared to Nvidia’s entry level MCP79 SKU. Furthermore Nvidia believes that Intel chose entry notebooks that were not optimised for power management in its presentation. How convenient and truthful.
According to Nvidia’s test in 3Dmark 2006 1280×1024, GM45 scores around 1000 points, while the mainstream MCP79MVL scores approximately 1200 and MCP79MX scores over 2000.
In 3Dmark Vantage GM45 is at around 800 level, MCP79MVL scores 1700 while MCP79MX scores around 3200+.
In both PC marks Vantage and 2005 Nvidia clearly wins benchmarks and when it comes to battery life, Intel offers a bit better battery life but you can expect less than 10 percent better battery life where Intel can work approximately 3.20 minutes and Nvidia 3.10 minutes on the same CPU, monitor and configuration.
Now for the fun part, in the HQV HD video benchmark GM45 scores 20 points out of a possible 130, while MCP79MX scores 100 points and has CPU utilization of 30 percent. Intel takes more than 80 percent of CPU time to play this test on GM45.
If this is not enough for you the following games have issues or failing on GM45 even on low settings: World Of Warcraft, Age of Conan, WarhammerOnline, HL2 Titles (test EP2), Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Fallout 3, Call Of Duty, Crysis Warhead, Left 4 Dead, Bioshock, Assassin’s Creed, Mass Effect, Knight’s of the Old Republic 2 and probably many more.
You can check out the full presentation here.