Hardware companies benefit from tangible demand, secured orders, and near term cash flows, while software faces uncertainty ...

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 ...

thrillo is correct. The MX will give Hardware Assist to the SOFTWARE decoding - your CPU will still do a bulk of the work. True hardware decoding takes a hardware decoder card (like the Hollywood+) ...

In yet another world first BirdDog (www.bird-dog.tv) today announced the immediate availability of ultra-low latency NDI® Decoding in FPGA via a free firmware update for Studio NDI and Mini. The ...

The update is shipping now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Windows Insiders can expect an update to Windows Subsystem for ...

Good news! You can now have H.264 hardware-decoded Flash on your Mac without resorting to installing beta software… just like Windows users have been enjoying for ...

As streaming has taken over, the AV1 codec has come up as a way to save bandwidth and improve quality going forward. According to a mention from the folks over at Synaptics, YouTube and Netflix ...

Firefox is finally gaining proper AV1 support. Neowin noticed that Mozilla has closed a 2-year-old bug report asking for the feature, with AV1 hardware decoding scheduled for the release of Firefox ...