Nero Adds CUDA Support to “Move it”

As we pointed out in our review of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTS 250 the other day, CUDA and GPGPU applications in general are sure to see an increase in numbers this year. It sure didn’t take look to see some proof of that. Nero AG at the opening day of CeBIT announced support for CUDA in their Move it application, a tool used to convert/recode various formats for use in many different media players.

I admit, I’ve never heard of this application until now, but I assume it’s rather new. At first glance, it looks to serve a similar purpose as Badaboom, in that it can convert video using the CUDA architecture in order to have it work on various mobile devices, such as the iPod and PSP. In addition, it also handles audio and photos. I’m not sure what the file support is like, but this is one application we’ll be sure to get a hold of shortly to test out.

As you probably would expect, the CUDA enhancements only benefit the video codecs at this time, as I don’t believe there are any audio-specific CUDA applications out there right now. Audio usually converts quite fast to begin with though, while it’s video that needs the most benefit. Either way, it’s good to see GPGPU applications on the rise, but it would be great to see more that utilize ATI’s own graphics cards as well, though.

By using CUDA technology to tap the massive parallel processing power of NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Nero Move it makes tasks such as customizing an HD video for an iPod, go from hours to minutes. Even more time can be saved when creating full HD video content in the H.264 video compression standard.