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NVIDIA has been busy promoting Badaboom for a while now. Today you can grab a trial version of Elemental Technologies’ Badaboom video transcoder at no-cost at www.nvidia.com/theforcewithin and try it out.

Badaboom is a video transcoding program that converts video files into other formats. For example, the program can convert an MPEG file to play on an iPod or other portable device. Video transcoding can be one of the most time-consuming tasks in home computing. Converting a two-hour movie, for instance, can take six or more hours when using the computer’s CPU. However, with Badaboom on the GPU, the conversion process can be up to 18 times faster than traditional methods, getting the job done in a few minutes and, in the meantime, also freeing the CPU to handle other tasks like email and Web browsing.

Badaboom is part of part of a growing number of applications that use the power of NVIDIA GeForce graphics processing units (GPU) and NVIDIA CUDA C-programming technology to significantly improve the performance of non-graphics applications by transferring the workload from the CPU to the more efficient GPU.

If anyone has time to try this out versus their CPU be sure to post up the results! I'm interested in seeing how well it really works.

once i get my rig back up from the ddr3 upgrade ill be glad to try it out, that maybe my quad core can give the 8800gt a run for its money

I was so suprised how fast my Q6600 encoded my Grid Highlight reel. My old dell used to take 40 minutes to encode a file of about 400MB, the quad took 3 minutes to encode 1gig worth of video!

I sure hope I can convert some movies for my PSP!

This program is phenomenal.