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CyberLink MediaEspresso 6 is the successor to CyberLink MediaShow Espresso 5.5. With its further optimized CPU/GPU-acceleration, MediaEspresso is an even faster way to convert not only your video but also your music and image files between a wide range of popular formats.
Now you can easily playback and display your favourite movies, songs and photos not just on your on your mobile phone, iPad, PSP, Xbox, or Youtube and Facebook channels but also on the newly launched iPhone 4. Compile, convert and enjoy images and songs on any of your computing devices and enhance your videos with CyberLink’s built-in TrueTheater Technology.
New and Improved Features
- Ultra Fast Media Conversion – With support from the Intel Core i-Series processor family, ATI Stream & NVIDIA CUDA, MediaEspresso’s Batch-Conversion function enables multiple files to be transcoded simultaneously.
- Smart Detect Technology – MediaEspresso 6 automatically detects the type of portable device connected to the PC and selects the best multimedia profile to begin the conversion without the need for user’s intervention.
- Direct Sync to Portable Devices – Video, audio and image files can be transferred in a few easy steps to mobile phones including those from Acer, BlackBerry, HTC, Samsung, LG, Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Palm, as well as Sony Walkman and PSP devices.
- Enhanced Video Quality – CyberLink TrueTheater Denoise and Lighting enables the enhancement of video quality through optical noise filters and automatic brightness adjustment.
- Video, Music and Image File Conversion – Convert not only videos to popular formats such as AVI, MPEG, MKV, H.264/AVC, and FLV at the click of a button, but also images such as JPEG and PNG and music files like WMA, MP3 and M4A.
- Online Sharing – Conversion to video formats used by popular social networking websites and a direct upload feature means posting videos to Facebook and YouTube has never been easier.
For our testing today we are converting a 3.3GB 720p MKV file (2h:12mins) to Apple Mp4 format for playback on a portable device. This is a common procedure for many people and will give a good indication of system power. We are focusing on the CPU efficiency with this test. The latest version of this program has some optimisations for the newest hardware.
The latest version of Espresso has enhanced the results for the Fusion hardware, dropping the time to 1 hour and 3 minutes. In the past we have tested the same hardware, and it was closer to 1 hour and 10 minutes. The ATOM D525 trails in last place, around 8 minutes slower than the AMD APU.
Piano black is an instant turn off for me. I bought a PC chassis years ago with the same finish. in a day it looked about 3 years old and a total mess.
I am still not sold on Fusion either, its better than Atom for sure, but what is the big deal?
Whasts the big deal about fusion? the power consumption. It makes great sense in mobile sector and for 24/7 use.
It looks great, and the low noise is a selling point, for me anyway as I hate fans whirring in a room.
They should sell them preconfigured, people wont want to start fitting components, I know a lot of people who cant anyway.
Well thought out, but I have an atom pc here and its a pain to use. I am positive fusion feels just as slow, even if its a bit faster.
Core i3 for my next media center…….
Yeah, it looks nice and all that, but man im not going to go for a low powered fusion desktop. laptop maybe, but I want a core i5 or i7 media center !
Thats a really pretty littlemachine and very very small. ideal for a man who is married to a woman who nags when another case is brought into the house.
I like the look of fusion, but im concerned about the performance. I had an atom laptop for a year and it drove me crazy. I cant see it being that big of a difference.
That piano black puts me off, is the white nice looking>? ive only found low res versions online
Loads of USB ports on that, first one ive seen with so many, always a selling point for me.
I dont fancy arsing about inside it, ill be watching for preconfigured ones
I dont think most people here understand what small factor and low power means, 15 and 17 could never compete with this standerd, price, energy, size is unbeatable…
this would be perfect for my car
I own this nettop and I like it a lot. I use it as desktop pc atm because my notebook crashed. The performance is quite good and in “normal” use ( office, surfing etc. ) everything feels fluid. Even multitasking works fine. The price-performance ratio is great and the form factor is just awesome. The configuration and installing of the RAM and hard disk is very easy, even if you don’t know much about computers.
It plays 720p flawlessly. Can’t tell about 1080p atm, sry.
I prefer it over atom. Atom + Ion2 is comparable if you look at benchmarks etc., but working with the fusion system feels smoother in daily use, dunno why. Everything seems to work a bit more fluidly.
In the spec they mention 1066MHz DDR3, you have tested it with 1333MHz DDR3. Would it be possible to use it with 1600MHz DDR3?
What is the limitation of HDD? 500GB?
Hi Hramat. I didnt have any 1600mhz DDR3 handy to test so im not sure if it will run natively at that speed or downclock to 1333mhz, ill try and find out.
The controller should read the latest 1TB 2.5inch drives such as the Samsung Spinpoint MT2 1TB, but again, I didn’t have one handy at the time. I don’t see a problem with that size.
I will go with 1333MHz also. I was bit worried that it would be limited to 1066MHz.
As HDD I will take SEAGATE Momentus XT, 500GB.
I would like to use it with linux or XBMC. Just need to search for additional remote control
I have set the NT-a3500 with
ADATA Supreme Series SO-DIMM DDR3-1333, CL9 – 4 GB
Seagate Momentus XT, SATA II, 7200RPM, 2,5 Zoll – 500 GB
and all runs fine
@ hrmat…. im getting exact setup. Hows Linux running for you? if so, what distro? are you using XBMC with it? Sorry for all the questions, ive had bad luck with Ubuntu 10.04 and video drivers, config. Took a lot of time to get stuff working.
i have overheating. idle temperatures are 60 degrees celsius.
On Load , while playing youtube videos, the CPU reaches 85 degrees.
I think the fan over the cpu is undersized.
I have broken already an hard disk due the higher temperatures. I think the foxconn is not very reliable……..