No Hardware Acceleration possible?!

James

Newbie Joined: Jan 09, 2010 10:04 Messages: 8 Offline

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Jan 09, 2010 10:14

Hi there,

I've got a serious problem with PowerDirector. First of all, its a great software but i want to be able to actually use the hardware acceleration since it will be so much faster to encode. But the option is greyed out, no matter which format i choose to encode to. What i did was go to the preferences and activate the GPU acceleration through ATI Stream technology. But still no change, even after restarts.

Here are my system specs:

ATI Radeon 5870
Catalyst 09.12
Windows 7 64x

The videos i used varied from being direct recording via FRAPS to XviD compressed AVIs. I don't know how to solve this mystery.

On a related matter i am searching for a possibility to tell the program to split the output files to 11 minutes pieces since im uploading a lot to youtube. I know there is an option, but im always recording like say an hour and i dont want to cut the videos all by hand and let the program handle this. Is this possible?

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online

Jan 09, 2010 12:50

Hi James -

Does this discussion & chu's post help you? http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/9120.page

The only way I know to "divide" a video like that is to assign new chapters at regular intervals (that's one of the options). I think you'd still have to cut bits out manually... I've never done that - all I can think of.

Cheers - Tony
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James

Newbie Joined: Jan 09, 2010 10:04 Messages: 8 Offline

Jan 09, 2010 14:27

Thanks for the reply James, but this discussion is stuck at the some point as i am. In fact i have a friend using a HD 5850 and he is able to choose the option (unlike Joe from the link you posted). I talked to him about it but he also doesnt know what the issue could be since he also has got the same Catalyst driver as well as Win 7 64x.

You think there might be a problem with compatibilty in Win7 or ATI?

OnTheWeb1

Contributor Location: Michigan USA Joined: Jan 02, 2009 12:58 Messages: 511 Offline

Jan 09, 2010 14:31

The AVIVO software is installed? Win8 64-bit Pro Retail
Intel i7-4770
16GB DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24
MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard
ASUS GTX 660 Direct CU II OC 2GB GPU
1 TB RAID 1 (mirrored) Drive Array
Several scratch drives for video, TMP, pagefile.

James

Newbie Joined: Jan 09, 2010 10:04 Messages: 8 Offline

Jan 09, 2010 14:44

now it is ... and its working! Thank you.

Normally the avivo was included into the packages of the catalyst driver. Since they brought out the new 5000 Series of the HD Radeon series it is no longer contained since

"Avivo Video Converter*, *Avivo Video Converter will only work
with HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD4000 series products".

Thanks a lot Tony!!!

OnTheWeb1

Contributor Location: Michigan USA Joined: Jan 02, 2009 12:58 Messages: 511 Offline

Jan 09, 2010 16:53

Quote: now it is ... and its working! Thank you.

Normally the avivo was included into the packages of the catalyst driver. Since they brought out the new 5000 Series of the HD Radeon series it is no longer contained since

"Avivo Video Converter*, *Avivo Video Converter will only work
with HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD4000 series products".

Thanks a lot Tony!!!

AVIVO seems to be the most common problem. I've not seen it bundled together with the driver download in the last year... always have to grab it separately and fill out that stupid survey form. I wish they would bundle with the driver and that would save a lot of tech-support problems, not just here.

Welcome aboard.

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Win8 64-bit Pro Retail
Intel i7-4770
16GB DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24
MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard
ASUS GTX 660 Direct CU II OC 2GB GPU
1 TB RAID 1 (mirrored) Drive Array
Several scratch drives for video, TMP, pagefile.

James

Newbie Joined: Jan 09, 2010 10:04 Messages: 8 Offline

Jan 10, 2010 04:47

In any case its working like charm now. Still: I'm searching for a possibility to tell the programm to chop the whole thing into 11 minute pieces. I probably think it will not be possible. My plan know is to encode the 1 hour video and then search 4 another program to actually split it up into those pieces. Point of question is here: Which program does that?

YURI

Newbie Joined: Jan 02, 2010 04:48 Messages: 1 Offline

Jan 13, 2010 04:03

I am not able to activate PD8 h/w acceleration on Radeon 4830 Graphic Card and i7 processor system under win 7 64bit Home Premium
AVIVO Video tool came up with my Catalyst Control Center: Version 2009.0702.1239.20840. Do I really need to install AVIVO encoder separately? Which version of AVIVO encoder is known as “working”? what is the file name for it?
I am using PD8 build 8.00.2220C the latest tech support recommended
Still no luck. "Hardware video encoder" button still greyed out...
Any help would be greatly appreciated