Anyways, to put this thread back on topic, and end the discussion as to why MS is not so retarded to use the GPU in this way, also to why the article is a pile of dumb ass shit, all whie in more layman's terms. GPU Accelerated video encoding is a terrible idea because it takes power away from games as it's using the customizable pipelines(GPU power in layman's term) to run code using whatever API to do the job, in retrospect, Intel's way of doing it is much better and that's most likely what the X1 and PS4 are both doing, which would be either a.) putting a fixed pipeline(low power consumption, the sole purpose would be to encode the video output for live streaming or saving them to the HDD at a small reasonable file size after compression for uploading to services like youtube) right in the GPU at a little corner or b.) use a seperate chip on the side for the same purpose. Using the actual GPU rendering pipelines for video encoding in this case would be absolutely retarded(I'd rather them using it for good physics if nothing else, they'd be wasting the idea behind GCN otherwise) and I don't want to believe that MS is that stupid nor do I think they are.
So that article is shit based on good logic, but I've seen some pretty bad logics from corporations as well so you never know......
