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 ...

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 ...

With AV1 hardware decode on mo­bile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...

What the three words that are changing the auto industry really mean, according to Alex Koster of Boston Consulting Group. "It is hard to overstate the importance of the transformation related to the ...

I've got a friend who will sell me a DVD drive for $35, and I was wondering how well my Ppro 200 /w 256kb cache will decode DVDs. I was also wondering what the res I need to be at to watch DVDs at ...

Festo’s Eric Rice explains two commonly used concepts “(software-defined automation” and “function integration”) in simple terms before contextualizing how Festo applies these concepts. The goal of ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about how some software coders are hitting labor market turbulence in the wake of a post-pandemic retrenchment and the sudden shift to generative artificial intelligence ...