Accelerate your digital home entertainment with ATI Stream Technology 

AMD Accelerates Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream Technology

Adobe and AMD have been working closely together to optimize and dramatically improve video playback performance of Flash Player 10.1 by taking advantage of hardware video acceleration on Windows-based PCs equipped with ATI Stream-enabled GPUs.¹

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to enable smooth, high quality video with minimal system overhead across mobile devices and PCs.

ATI Stream technology accelerates Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 on systems equipped with ATI Stream-enabled GPUs to enable high-quality, high definition (HD) video on rich Web content and applications based on Adobe’s Flash platform. ATI Stream technology enables a balanced approach using both AMD CPUs and GPUs for an amazing experience, including improved video playback, amazing image quality, and reduced CPU utilization.

Users will be able to enjoy a much smoother viewing experience when accessing rich, H.264 video content built with the Adobe Flash Platform from popular sites like Hulu.com or YouTube on systems equipped with ATI Stream-enabled GPUs.

• Download Adobe Flash Player 10.1 release
• Get the Latest Graphics Card Driver

Fast Video Transcoding

Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series graphics cards can accelerate the conversion of standard and HD video into multiple formats for use on various consumer electronics devices. By harnessing the massive parallel processing power of AMD GPUs, transcoding files has never been easier. The free ATI Video Converter² enables basic GPU transcoding of HD video streams.

For more advanced transcoding functionality CyberLink’s MediaShow Espresso video converter application leverages AMD’s unique Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) through its ATI Stream technology to quickly convert digital video files for use on portable devices like Apple iPhone and Sony PSP.

MediaShow Espresso

Media Show Transcoding Performance with ATI Stream technology

Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso using ATI Stream technology converted a 94 second long MPEG-4 AVC HD (H.264) video at 1920x1080 resolution to an MPEG-4 video at 480x360 in 47 seconds, while MediaShow Espresso without ATI Stream acceleration converted the same source video to the same output specifications in 168 seconds, up to 3.57x faster.

System specifications: Cyberlink Media Show Espresso 5.0.0515, AMD Athlon™ 7750 X2 @2.7GHz, RAM 2GB DDR2-667, ATI Radeon HD 4670 512 MB, Windows Vista® Ultimate 64 bit SP1, desktop resolution 1920x1200, ATI drivers: ATI 8.612.3 (Catalyst™ 9.5 hotfix)

For digital media enthusiasts looking for an incredibly robust set of features and functionality for capturing, editing and distributing HD video, CyberLink has optimized its award winning video editing software PowerDirector 7 to take advantage of ATI Stream technology.

Power Director

For more information or to purchase PowerDirector 7 or Espresso, click here.

Advanced Video Post-Processing

ATI Stream is for more than just transcoding acceleration; it can also help enable advanced video processing that takes standard definition content to near-HD quality.

ArcSoft’s TotalMedia Theatre application will include ArcSoft SimHD™, a new type of post-processing technology that allows consumers to experience close-to-HD viewing of standard definition content using ATI Stream technology. (HD monitor required for full HD enjoyment)

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