ATI Catalyst 5.13 Final Released

[DrDevin]

ATI has released the final version of their Catalyst 5.13 drivers:

Catalyst® 5.13 software suite introduces H.264 hardware acceleration for the ATI Radeon® X1800, X1600, and X1300 product line. H.264 is advanced video coding that provides significant reduction in bit-rate compared to standards such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. The ATI Radeon® X1800, X1600, and X1300 products provide hardware acceleration for the playback of high-definition content that is encoded using H.264. Using the Catalyst® software suite 5.13, along with the Cyberlink H.264 decoder available from http://www.ati.com/technology/h264.html provides H.264 hardware acceleration.

Now all I need is for NVIDIA to add support for this. My CPU is too weak to play most H.264 video at acceptable speed.

Also I think it is great that they provide the software to do this. They also provide software to transcode video into different formats (and its really fast).

 

[Laivasse]

Any benefit for 9800's? if not I'll just stick with what I've got...

 

[Dekstar]

Same I want to know if it's worth getting to increase framerate on a 9800 pro?

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

" H.264 is advanced video coding that provides significant reduction in bit-rate compared to standards such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4."

All it is, is making image quality even better now.

 

[Cormeh]

Well surely if it isn't listed for a 9800 you shouldn't try and use them.

 

[jondy]

Catalyst drivers are universal through the whole Radeon range

 

[Cormeh]

Fair point. I don't update mine often enough.

 

[bosox188]

When they save H.264, do they mean the one you can use in Quicktime as in the one of the formats that the new Ipod uses? Or is it an avi file?