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Posted by nhlfan44 at Jun 18, 2010, 6:48:11 PM
love struck   Hardware Accelerated Video Rendering
Not sure if this has been discussed before but I was wondering if it's possible to hardware accelerate the video rendering process? Right now with my CPU (Athlon X2 3Ghz) going flat out (90-100% utilization) and 4GB RAM its going to take 46 hours to render an HD video of my design. Meanwhile my Radeon 4870 with 1GB RAM is sitting idle doing absolutely nothing. Yes i could turn down the resolution and detail level but i want to see what this wonderful program can do! I read the forum thread about increasing the memory to speed up rendering and plan on trying that out to see if it improves things but I would still love to see SH3D offload the heavy lifting to the GPU instead of the CPU. I did a bit of googling and found the JavaCL library which is a Java API to the OpenCL library. I believe this is what one would need to go about hardware accelerating the rendering process. Is this something you cold see being released in a future version of SH3D?