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I found a list of geforce cards with the purevideo acceleration, shows a chart of different features with hidef vs standard h264/x264 support. http://www.nvidia.com/docs/CP/11036/PureVideo_Product_Comparison.pdf Checkout this amazing h264 article over at anandtech, basically they are saying unless y...

H.264 codecs are pretty CPU intensive and VLC can't use multi-cores to decode it yet. So if your computer is dying when decoding 1080p samples from H264, do the following. Open the preferences Tick advanced in the lower right corner Go to "Input/Codec" Go to "other codecs" subca...