I'm guessing the files were initially linked to the hardware decoder and then got overwritten to use ATI's "hardware decoder" and thus i get software decoding using a plain player.<P>I didn't try ...

A recent paper from Friedrich-Alexander University benchmarks energy consumption and compression efficiency for six video codecs across software and hardware decoders. While the study uses VP9 as a ...

Hey,<BR> I wanted to ask a quick Q regarding DVD ROMs<BR> A friend of mine is trying to install a ALL-IN-WONDER Radeon card. I'm so jealous!<BR> Anyway, the vid card has it's own hardware decoding for ...

With software-based decoding, there often is inconsistency between hardware-based triggering results and software-based decoding results caused by slightly different threshold-level settings or errors ...

Popular open-source, cross-platform media player software VLC Media Player has just been updated to VLC version 2.1 ‘Rincewind’. We are told this is “a major upgrade for VLC”, the highlights of which ...