Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Mainconcept Reference

Also new to our benchmark suite is MainConcept’s Reference. You might not be familiar with the MainConcept name, but you probably use one of its products. Corel, Adobe, and AverMedia all use MainConcept’s codecs. We use MainConcept’s freely available Reference demo to transcode the 1080p MPEG-2 file created in our ProShow Producer benchmark
to the AVC/H.264 codec at 1920x1080 resolution. The Reference demo uses the same codec as the fully licensed version but includes a watermark in a corner. The benchmark gets a healthy bump from quad cores and scales well with clock speed. Interestingly, this is one of the few benchmarks that run significantly faster.

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