Overview | Features | Specifications | How It Works | Videos
I want to watch my videos on my device. How can I do this?
More and more digital media players can play video, but it's not always easy to get the video onto your device, which can be time consuming and frustrating! This is where Badaboom® comes in. Badaboom® formats video files for a variety of devices using a process called transcoding: it converts video files from one format to another so that they will play on a wide variety of devices.
Elemental and NVIDIA change the way transcoding is done!
Badaboom®, Elemental's consumer media converter, takes a different approach to media conversion. Instead of using the CPU, Badaboom® harnesses the massively parallel power of NVIDIA GPUs to perform the core transcoding operations. By utilizing the GPU, Badaboom® not only runs much faster than CPU-based competitors, it leaves the CPU available to process other tasks. The result: consumers can now painlessly convert video to view on a variety of portable devices, including iPod, PSP, and Apple TV, all in a convenient, intuitive application.
Which NVIDIA GPUs can use the Badaboom® software?
Any CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs can run the Badaboom® software application. For a list of these GPUs, please see the NVIDIA site.
Okay, I want more detail. What is transcoding exactly?
Today’s consumers are no longer satisfied viewing their media on a single, fixed display. Instead, they want their content available wherever their busy lifestyle takes them. To support different devices, the video and audio files need to be formatted differently in terms of compression used, resolution, and bitrate. Converting media streams between different formats to support multiple devices is a process known as transcoding. Transcoding is one of most compute-intensive operations running on PCs today; transcoding a 2-hour movie, for example, can take many hours on a standard CPU processors. Furthermore, not only does the processing take a long time, but it consumes the computer’s processor resources for the entire time, rendering the machine unusable for other computing tasks.
How can you buy the Badaboom® software?
Keep your eyes on the prize: the Badaboom website will have all the details as they emerge.
Who’s behind Badaboom®?
The parallel processing pros at Elemental. Do you work well in massively parallel environments? Do codecs get you all hot and bothered, in a good way? If so, we are looking for YOU to come create more killers apps with us!
