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SoM Your Other Daddy Joined: 03 Dec 1999 Posts: 20012	Posted: 06-22-2010 12:53 PM                  released today VLC media players gets GPU accelerated video decoding. more info _________________ [WYD]SoM
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Psyche911 True Nightmare Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 3560	Posted: 06-22-2010 02:28 PM                  At first I was intrigued, but then decided to see how much the old one taxes my system. Using my highest quality movie, I average about 10% CPU usage. I realize this is probably more of a big deal for media players, but my CPU is like 3 years old, nowhere near top of the line. On the other hand, youtube videos in 720p average over 50% CPU usage. I heard there's a new version of Flash that uses GPU acceleration too, yeah?
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SoM Your Other Daddy Joined: 03 Dec 1999 Posts: 20012	Posted: 06-22-2010 07:16 PM                  more info on Flash 10 GPU _________________ [WYD]SoM
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AmIdYfReAk Elite Joined: 10 Feb 2000 Posts: 28023	Posted: 06-22-2010 07:53 PM                  All i have to say is... FINALLY! i was complaining about this with the G-force 1's and DiVX/etc didn't take advantage of all of the power sitting there in the card. Thanks for the post sommeh
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Plan B foolproof Joined: 11 Jan 2001 Posts: 7927	Posted: 06-24-2010 10:09 AM                  All I have to say is I don't see how this improves 2d playback? I'm able to play 1080p video flawlessly, and apparently my 3 year old cpu is quite up to the task, and never whines about how the GPU should step in and do its bit. I love VLC, it's my go to video player, but it's really perfect as is.
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^misantropia^ Mentor Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 3958	Posted: 06-24-2010 12:20 PM                  Your GPU has a bitch-ass pipeline for decoding, interpolating, smoothing and stretching video. Much more so than your CPU.
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