Does a utility exist that will query the installed GPU and report whether it supports hardware-accelerated encode and decode of h.264, h.265, etc? Because googling an AMD part number and trying to ...

Apple has introduced a new Technical Note for OS X 10.6.3 that allows third-party developers to use hardware acceleration to decode H.264 video. Adobe’s failure to deliver acceptable performance under ...

Texas Instruments Inc. recently unveiled an all-format digital video decoder that enables PC graphics formats and SD and HD video formats in display applications. The video decoder, a single-chip ...

The processor of current PCs is usually powerful enough to work smoothly with all types of content. However, some processes put a higher load on the processor — for example, when you watch videos.

Toshiba has announced a powerful MPEG-4 encoder and decoder LSI that brings video-game-grade 3D graphics to cellular phones. The latest addition to Toshiba's T series of MPEG-4 LSI, the T4G (part ...

The Video Decode Acceleration framework is a C programming interface providing low-level access to the H.264 decoding capabilities of compatible GPUs such as the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or ...

Microsoft has announced that graphics processor partners Intel, AMD and Nvidia are bringing hardware-accelerated AV1/AVIF video compression to new Windows 10 systems this fall. Unfortunately, these ...