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It will, however, fix underutilization of computational power. During low-information sections of the video, there is a substantial surplus of CPU cycles which could be used to decode further ahead and buffer YUV frames in memory. Yet there are cycles unused and memory free, but frames still not dec...

I am attempting to watch a rather high bitrate hi10p h.264 file, but unfortunately, there are some brief parts (TV static, animated confetti, etc.) which are too strenuous for my aging dual core laptop to handle. Most of the film is rather tame and my CPU trudges along at 60-70% utilization. I don't...