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You think VLC pulls the VP8/9 version instead of the h264 version? I seriously doubt it. Why would it? It would make no sense. Most devices have h264 hardware d
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
You think VLC pulls the VP8/9 version instead of the h264 version? I seriously doubt it. Why would it? It would make no sense. Most devices have h264 hardware decoders. Most don't have VP8/9 decoders (though they exist).
I also have no doubts that an Athlon64 could decode 720p h264 completely in software. You'd be pegging that single core pretty high, but it could do it.
- ploxiln 11y agoMy point was that the hardware acceleration, and vp8 vs h264, doesn't really matter. The computation power of processors sold in 2010, even those in not-very-thick laptops, was probably double my Athlon64. The difference is everything else, the UI stuff (and maybe also flash and browsers being less efficient at decoding than ffmpeg).
- jsprogrammer 11y agoWell, on a single core you are going to hit issues with multiple processes running. If you have the browser, flash, network, and decoding all happening on a single core, it wouldn't be surprising to see stuttering. Obviously, offloading the decode to a different processor would help out, but so would running just a single process.
- TD-Linux 11y agoWell, you'd use 30% less bandwidth (and therefore start / seek faster). In addition, decoding VP9 in software is actually faster than H.264 with ffmpeg, the decoding library that VLC uses.