The Avivo video converter is a free piece of software that will demonstrate the GPU computation abilities of the AMD/ATI platform. Supported on all AMD/ATI 4000 series graphics cards and newer, the Avivo video converter will be included with the December release of AMD/ATI's graphics drivers (8.12). Featuring GPGPU-accelerated transcoding of MPEG-2 and 1080p H.264 in a variety of quality/resolutions, early benchmarks illustrate a dramatic reduction in time required for transcoding - from 3 hours with a Phenom CPU to just 12 minutes with a Radeon HD 4850.
