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 ...

Hardware companies benefit from tangible demand, secured orders, and near-term cash flows, while software faces uncertainty around model economics, disruption risks, and capex payoff. Hardware and ...

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 ...