h.264 hardware acceleration
Posted: 06 Aug 2009 11:36
h.264 hardware acceleration
I was wondering what h.264 hardware acceleration you get from VLC, in particular with the Intel GMA 950 graphics (Acer Aspire One netbook)...
I was expecting none – but I recently tried a few DVD rips I have (encoded by myself at h.264 with handbrake) – and found that the playback was only using 25 to 30% CPU – this is on an Intel Atom processor... There is no way IMHO that the CPU could be decoding the whole thing itself with this little CPU, so there must be some acceleration from the GMA950, yes???
I also have an older laptop with a Pentium M 1.4Ghz that quite frankly struggles with the same files, and from what I hear Pentium M should be a much faster CPU...
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I was wondering what h.264 hardware acceleration you get from VLC, in particular with the Intel GMA 950 graphics (Acer Aspire One netbook)...
I was expecting none – but I recently tried a few DVD rips I have (encoded by myself at h.264 with handbrake) – and found that the playback was only using 25 to 30% CPU – this is on an Intel Atom processor... There is no way IMHO that the CPU could be decoding the whole thing itself with this little CPU, so there must be some acceleration from the GMA950, yes???
I also have an older laptop with a Pentium M 1.4Ghz that quite frankly struggles with the same files, and from what I hear Pentium M should be a much faster CPU...
ta