Everyone loves video transcoding - Nvidia, AMD, Intel

Apparently the transcoding of various video formats and in the meantime an application for the masses. How else do you explain that not only AMD / ATI and Nvidia always call this function as a top priority for your GPU acceleration, but now Intel's upcoming integrated graphics chip explicitly advertises for this purpose. The soon-awaited laptop CPU "Arrandale" and the desktop processor "Clarkdale be" namely, to bring an integrated GPU, and 7 then it can be used as a co-processor to accelerate video transcoding on Windows. Well, we would nevertheless be a real time video acceleration rather EFFECT. But apparently this is the mass market is not big enough. But what struck us in studying the new multimedia interface of Windows 7, gives us hope, after all, so in addition to hardware transcoders are actually even via hardware-accelerated video effects msdn.microsoft .com/en-us/library/dd567928.aspx (KSMFT_CATEGORY_VIDEO_PROCESSOR) from the operating system directly supported. That means access when a GPU can manufacturers here an effect (eg a Blur) registered with the operating system, then all the programs on these real-time effect. Well, at least all the programs that support the new Microsoft Media Foundation. Us apart from the new Movie Maker sorry, no other editing program known, but that can come yet ... Oh, and one question has long occupied us: What a waste of energy actually result from the transcoding? Perhaps we should reinschriben into the current climate protocol but views the legalization of file sharing, since it is certainly a lot of electricity could be saved if not every user needs to transcode their video collections nächstelang itself. That should also save a lot of CO2 ...