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> Most of the video you encode on a computer is actually all in software/CPU because the quality and efficiency is better. I don't think that's true. I bought
by vbezhenar 2y ago
> Most of the video you encode on a computer is actually all in software/CPU because the quality and efficiency is better.
I don't think that's true. I bought a Thinkpad laptop, installed Linux and one of my issues was that watching youtube video put CPU onto 60%+ load. The same with Macbook barely scratched CPU at all. I finally managed to solve this issue by installing Arch. When everything worked as necessary, CPU load was around 10%+ for the same video. I didn't try Windows but I'd expect that things on Windows would work well.
So most of the video for average user probably is hardware decoded.
- adrian_b 2y agoThe comment to which you replied was about encoding, not decoding. There is no reason to do decoding in software, when hardware decoding is available. On the other hand, choosing between hardware encoding and software encoding, depends on whether quality or speed is more important. For instance for a video conference hardware encoding is fine, but for encoding a movie whose original quality must be preserved as much as possible, software encoding is the right choice.
- foobiekr 2y agoMost hardware encoders suck.