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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by felixfurtak on Thursday October 24, 2013 @10:55PM (#6609504)
Most video encoding is mp4-type now (rather than the mp2-type used by dvds). Mp4 is typically a lot more processor intensive.
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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by ZoFreX on Friday October 25, 2013 @05:21AM (#6610556)
Any even vaguely modern laptop offloads mpeg 4 part 10 decoding onto a decoder chip or the GPU.
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