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new VLC is GPU accelerated
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:53 pm
by SoM
released today
VLC media players gets GPU accelerated video decoding.
more info
Re: new VLC is GPU accelerated
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:28 pm
by Psyche911
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?
Re: new VLC is GPU accelerated
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:16 am
by SoM
Re: new VLC is GPU accelerated
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:53 am
by AmIdYfReAk
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
Re: new VLC is GPU accelerated
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:09 pm
by Plan B
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.
Re: new VLC is GPU accelerated
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:20 pm
by ^misantropia^
Your GPU has a bitch-ass pipeline for decoding, interpolating, smoothing and stretching video. Much more so than your CPU.