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6 Sep 2024 19:21:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: War of the codecs  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 4 Nov 2008 14:09:59
Message: <49109e07$1@news.povray.org>
Mike Raiford wrote:

> If the decompression CODEC is in any way hardware accelerated

...then it'll take much less CPU power. ;-)

Given that the fastest codecs are DivX and Xvid, I doubt that's the answer.

Question: Does anybody still make MPEG acceleration cards for the PC any 
more?

Question: Do such hardware acceleration schemes accelerate the whole 
pipeline? Or just key parts of it?

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