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近两年NVIDIA的CUDA技术似乎成为业界新宠，其优良的科学运算加速能力确实首屈一指，引领着并行运算潮流，各行业都纷纷采用它来加速，搞得我们也跃跃欲试，呵呵，另外还有很多网友对MediaCoder的厚爱，希望在MC上体验一下CUDA加速的快感，于是我们决定了用CUDA加速MediaCoder转码。
年初我们几个开发人员就开始酝酿着采用CUDA加速H.264编码，毕竟H.264现在比较火，还是比较有前途。经过一段时间的紧张的开发，CUDA加速的H264编码器终于诞生，让性能卓越的MediaCoder有添一利器。废话不多说，下面贴一下内部测试的结果以飨各位网友，主要与x264编码性能做个对比。
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Carrying on the rich hacker tradition of picking up the slack for companies that are unwilling or unable to provide the functionality users need, a team of Wii coders have given the console what Nintendo could not: DVD playback. By installing a small, hidden channel on a system, this package blesses the console with a libdi file (DVD access library), and allows you to watch your favorite videos with the MPlayer application, an open source media player. The install file will run on modded and unmodded systems, and the software is also capable of playing media from SD cards (though it’s experimental right now). Finally Wii owners can join the ranks of, well… pretty much everyone else.

Origin: http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/13/the-wii-finally-gets-dvd-playback-no-thanks-to-nintendo/

The following is a directory of open source software that can be used for P2P video streaming.

Tribler

• License – GPL (Open Source)
• Language – Python
• Operating systems – Any platform that supports Python
• Supported multimedia – Windows Media video, NullSoft video, Theora video and Dirac video

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I was invited, among thousands of developers, to participate in the Intel Developers Forum this year held in Shanghai. Intel has proved us that he is very rich by holding a really big event in the whole building of the top conference center of Shanghai. Besides the extravagance I experienced, there were several lectures given by Intel fellows and scientists somehow rewarding to me I think. Here are a few pictures taken in the event.

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Apparently Sony found out they just don’t make ‘em like they used to and whipped up a belt-driven USB turntable: the PS-LX300USB. It’ll export your 33s and 45s through Sound Forge Audio Studio (bundled) and has its own pre-amp, but Sony, you’re living in the past, man. It’ll go for $150 next month — just sell off a Northern soul single or two to cover costs.

Origin: http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/26/sony-announces-ps-lx300usb-usb-turntable-ready-to-fight-next-fo/

For those who do online gold trading (like me), I made a tiny gold price watcher extension for Firefox, which displays current gold price (and the change) and USD to RMB exchange rate (useful to me )

The data is retrieved from Kitco.com and Bank of China and is refreshed every 3 minutes. Single clicking the status bar area will refresh the data. Double clicking will display the chart.

Click here to install it. If you have problem installing it directly, please right click the link and download the xpi file and drag-n-drop the file into your Firefox to get it installed.