Badaboom 1.1.1 Review

Without a doubt, many graphic cards are much better at handling tasks that scale well with additional cores like transcoding. With the power of nVidia's CUDA language, the Badaboom team was able to come up with an impressively fast tool to complete this otherwise extremely lengthy process. The vast array of input file types should please most people, although it cannot handle protected content so you will have to rely on third party tools to decrypt those DVDs. However, the same thing does not apply to output files. Saying the choice is limited wouldn't be quite exact since there is no choice at all. I can deal with being restricted to an H.264 video output, but having the audio locked to 2 channel AAC isn't too satisfying, especially when the input had much better sound quality. Apparently, multi-channel audio is on their to-do list, but no deadline has been given, which is a major downside for a lot of people.