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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MacRumors is suggesting the new NVIDIA powered MacBook and MacBook Pro models have received hardware decoding of H.264 video, not available on the previous versions even though their respective cards ...