Avivo High Definition Video encodeing this possible ??

I want to encode my 1080i .mpg files to Microsoft HD .WMV files. Can i
do this with Avivo. Would like to use WMV Encoder to do this. Anyone
realeased a patch that will enable this.

Or can i do this with the 1.2. This is the one iam talking about. ATI
Avivo Video Converter v1.12.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1281

It says it can encode files 5 times faster. if it does what i want. It
will tip the balance and ill get an ATI c ard for my NEW pc. I dont
think an Nvidia card has nothing that can do anything like hardware
encodeing ?

Thanks for any info. Ill keep googleing.