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 ...

With AV1 hardware decode on mo­bile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...

Well, i left the hardware decoder in my computer hoping i could use it for TV output and use the software decoder for regular viewing.<P>Anyways, when i ran the player for the hardware decoder, i was ...

Hey,<BR> I wanted to ask a quick Q regarding DVD ROMs<BR> A friend of mine is trying to install a ALL-IN-WONDER Radeon card. I'm so jealous!<BR> Anyway, the vid card has it's own hardware decoding for ...

Microchip Technology Inc. introduced the PIC32 Harmony Software Decoder Framework and Microsoft Windows Media Audio (WMA) Decoder Library for 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller (MCU)-based consumer-audio ...

StarCore LLC and Hantro Products Oy, a leading supplier of video software and hardware solutions announced the immediate availability of an optimized H.264 software video decoder for the StarCore ...

A perplex procedure that it is, software development usually involves good share of risks, both programmatic & technical. What if the software program does not function as intended? What if the ...

With software-based decoding, there often is inconsistency between hardware-based triggering results and software-based decoding results caused by slightly different threshold-level settings or errors ...