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> I doubt core2duo had any sort of hardware acceleration for video decoding That would be the job of the GPU anyway, but H.264 decoding was pretty much standar
by pantalaimon 3y ago
> I doubt core2duo had any sort of hardware acceleration for video decoding
That would be the job of the GPU anyway, but H.264 decoding was pretty much standard back then.
That's why plugins like h264ify[0] exist for old hardware.
[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgal https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdc...
- joecool1029 3y ago> That's why plugins like h264ify[0] exist for old hardware. Which the intel GMA GPU's did not support in core2duo era. Those features were added by their gen5 (ironlake) GPU, the first intel HD gpu.
- pantalaimon 3y agoX4500HD introduced H.264 decoding on the last Core 2 generation https://web.archive.org/web/20120620155937/http://intellinuxgraphics.org/h264.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120620155937/http://intellinux... edit: turns out this was never merged and attempts to get the old code running on a modern stack were not successful https://github.com/intel/intel-vaapi-driver/issues/544 https://github.com/intel/intel-vaapi-driver/issues/544
- iforgotpassword 3y agoHah nice digging, that issue was an interesting read. I will definitely check the IGD version of that laptop.