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Re:An update on GNU performance by richardwhiuk on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:39PM (#18271530)
Nope. They could be GPGPU accelerated, but if you aren't rendering to screen then it's not typically graphics processor territory.

Plus modern codecs are quite linearly data dependent which is a bad for for a GPU.

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Re:An update on GNU performance by ilaksh on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:47PM (#18271570)
But aren't movies rendered to the screen?

My understanding is most smartphones at least have hardware decoding for H264.

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Re:An update on GNU performance by semi-extrinsic on Monday October 22, 2018 @12:59AM (#18272288)
Exactly, a GPU needs to have specific hardware (a dedicated ASIC) for H264 acceleration. It's not accelerated by the usual GPU hardware, which is sufficiently general-purpose that an accelerator running there would not be codec specific.
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