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Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

Posted Jan 25, 2010 21:02 UTC (Mon) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640)
In reply to: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web by Oddscurity
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

> The way I understand it: nVidia's VDPAU doesn't even do all of the decoding
> on the GPU, it just accelerates some parts like colour conversion,
> deblocking and other parts of the inner loop.

I believe that is what the early VDPAU versions did. Later versions offload full decoding to the video card. Then again, this is based on external observations of cpu load rather than knowing what the VDPAU library really does..


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