Video processing with ATI cards

Video processing with ATI cards A friend of mine is about to purchase either an 4870 or an 4890 ATI card. He is deeply envious of the GPU-video processing that is now available on NVIDIA through CUDA with a number of video processing softwares.
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Guest [Entry]

"Yes, you need to use ATI Video Converter, which should be built into the latest Catalyst driver downloads.

It is accessible through the Catalyst Control Center, and according to the blurb should be able to transcode video up to 17x faster than CPU alone, e.g. one hour of video could be converted to portable player format in 12 minutes.

Edit: according to a recent Anandtech review, it's not very good. And it looks like you need to download it separately to the drivers."

Guest [Entry]

ATI Stream (I believe is the name) is the ATI version of this type of software. It is not supported by ATI at all currently. Someone may be able to update this thread when it is supported.