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 ...

Hardware companies benefit from tangible demand, secured orders, and near term cash flows, while software faces uncertainty ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In context: The AV1 video coding format provides an open, royalty-free codec specifically designed for internet video streaming, developed as a successor to Google's VP9. Unlike competing formats like ...

Custom hardware enables real-time error correction on 64-qubit Kaveri quantum processor, achieving ‘significant ...

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 won’t launch anytime soon, but some info regarding it just surfaced. According to a new rumor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will end up offering AV1 decoding. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 ...

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 ...

Google is switching to libdav1d for AV1 video decoding on Android. The new development was officially confirmed by Arif Dikici, a member of the Android Video and Image Codecs team. The company even ...

Google recently issued a significant video streaming performance upgrade for Android devices. Still, several YouTube users are far from happy about it. The change comes in the form of a switch to a ...