I'm guessing the files were initially linked to the hardware decoder and then got overwritten to use ATI's "hardware decoder" and thus i get software decoding using a plain player.<P>I didn't try ...

A recent paper from Friedrich-Alexander University benchmarks energy consumption and compression efficiency for six video codecs across software and hardware decoders. While the study uses VP9 as a ...

Numerous industries in broadcast, cable, videoconferencing and consumer electronics space are considering H.264 as the video codec of choice for new products and services. The H.264/AVC video coding ...