Bob Cringely of PBS fame has it on good “rumor” authority that Apple‘s planning to add H.264 hardware support to all of its machines. As in the iMac, the MacBook, the MacBook Pro, the Mac Pro, and ...

It's not clear to me, and the closest thing I've found to information is a 1 line item in the XBMC 11 release notes. Does jailbreaking allow software to access the hardware decode engine, specifically ...

Following up on the rumor that Apple was going to add an H.264 hardware encoding/decoding chip into all upcoming Macs, Elgato has released an H.264 USB stick that does just that. What does this mean ...

The QL201B Main Profile H.264 encoder/decoder is suited for portable consumer devices and digital home applications including higher-efficiency PVR/DVR and IP video communications devices. The chip ...

Micronas announced the launch of MicHognose™2D-X, a dual-tuner DVB-S2 PCI Express® card reference design for home theater solutions. The MicHognose™2D-X reference design allows ODMs and OEMs to ...

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 ...

There was a thread about H.264 hardware acceleration requiring a geforce 9400m, but it is now closed so I am posting here.<BR><BR>I wondered if hardware decoding was disabled when the 9600m GT present ...

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 ...