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 ...

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 ...

Can anyone point me towards a good software decoder or inexpensive hardware decoder? Stupid me (and I really feel stupid, I've been building and servicing computers for around ten years and I forgot ...

With AV1 hardware decode on mo­bile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...

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 ...

While the recent war of words between Adobe and Apple over the inclusion of Flash in the latter’s mobile devices is unlikely to reach a cease fire anytime soon, Apple giveth as well as taketh away.