Comments on: Only the Nvidia 9400M works with Snow Leopard’s h.264 acceleration

By: Want h.264 GPU assisted processing in Snow Leopard? Better have an Nvidia 9400M or better. « Gadgetsteria

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:42:11 +0000

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By: rezwits

rezwits — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:52:01 +0000

the bs is that H.264 is only accelerated in Quicktime X player, so far, not Front Row. So because you can’t open H.264 AC3 video files in Quicktime X player you can’t get acceleration, until someone develops some kind of plug-in/codec for Quicktime X. I haven’t checked iTunes yet… maybe with iTunes 9 it might…

By: Thomcarl

Thomcarl — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:01:22 +0000

March of 2008?, sorry the last iMacs to have ATI 2600 graphics were 2008s, did you buy a refurbished 2008 in 2009 the price you payed would indicate that. In any case why are you annoyed? You really don’t have anything to complain about, if you want open CL sell your current iMac and buy a 2009 24 inch $1500, or a 20 inch for $999 in the referb store.

By: fb3406485

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:28:28 +0000

I’m a bit annoyed that the iMac I bought in March doesn’t support OpenCL. (It uses a Radeon 2600).

I did get a good deal on it though – just over $1200 shipped for a 24″ 2×2.8Ghz.

By: FULMTL

FULMTL — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:16:32 +0000

PC win

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:11:30 +0000

Then you could check out the NVida “Pure Video” and “PureVideoHD” apps which can, on some GPU’s, transfer all of the decoding work load off the CPU and onto the GPU

By: bobo

bobo — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:15:46 +0000

Tiger… hmm, thats the one that came right before leopard… LMAO.

btw, h.264 is only officially supported for the 9400M right now… doesn’t mean it is or will be the only one.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:21:08 +0000

What? Seven years? Nope. Tiger came out April 2005. The FIRST commercial version of OS X came out seven years ago in March 2002.

Leopard has a lot going for it. Once I tried it, I knew it was way better than Tiger. Some differences were subtle but important. Like many updates to Applescript.

And FYI, any NVIDIA graphics card with CUDA will be supported by OpenCL. So that new $450 monster for the Mac Pro just introduced will not only have 240 cores, but they’ll all be reachable for use by Snow Leopard.

And you can bet there will be updates to MacBook Pros that will support OpenCL.