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Facts and Fiction of GPU-Based H.264 Encoding

Posted by timothy on from the alamo-doesn't-have-a-basement dept.

notthatwillsmith writes "We've all heard a lot of big promises about how general-purpose GPU computing can greatly accelerate common tasks that are slow on the CPU — like H.264 video encoding. Maximum PC compared the GPU-accelerated Badaboom app to Handbrake, a popular CPU-based encoder. After testing a variety of workloads ranging from archival-quality DVD rips to transcodes suitable for play on the iPhone, Maximum PC found that while Badaboom is significantly faster than X264-powered Handbrake in a few tests that require video resizing, it simply can't compare to the X264-powered Handbrake for archival-quality DVD backups."

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  1. help! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here's something that some ppl prefer not to discuss...

    After returning to the US after living overseas for many years, I noticed a change in my turds. While overseas, my turds were usually small, or odd-shaped bits, or worse still hardly solid at all. I didn't experience any unusual digestive problems, and really I never even noticed that they were odd...

    That is until I returned "home". Almost immediately my turds regained their long, cylindrical shape, that I had forgotten about all those years ago. I mean almost as long as my arm.

    So my question is, why the change?

    A friend described exactly the same situation happening after he returned from traveling overseas, confirming that this is a common occurance.

    Now remember, I'd been living overseas (Europe) for most of the past 11 years, so I would've expected my turds to adapt and be normalized after a certain length of time in one place.

    So my friend and I could only attribute the change to certain bacteria in the water supplies (your do-do is mostly bacteria, btw). So I guess when I got back "home" the US bacteria once again setup shop in my intestines and reconfigured my turds into nice long pieces to once again grace my toilet bowl with their heaven scented extrusions. ;)

    The end.

    You may now take a nice shit and observe your turds in solitary splendor.

    BTW, older German and Dutch toilets have a special ledge for your turds, above the water, so you may relish their shape and scent more readily. Isn't that nice? ;)

    And no, I don't have a turd fetish! :p