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I'm shocked there still isn't a hardware accelerator for video decoding.

• Narishma 2y ago
  What do you mean? Pretty much any SoC designed for consumer applications has some form of hardware accelerated video decoding.
• graypegg 2y ago
  There is! FFmpeg supports hardware acceleration for a lot of operations. (Though format/codec dependant on the chipset you're working with, so it's not as general as you might expect. I don't know a ton about video's guts, so I assume the variance between video codec decoding is big enough to require incompatible special silicon.) https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro
• ghhrjfkt4k 2y ago
  ffmpeg does more than hardware decoding. For example scaling, cropping, changing colors, effects. All this stuff can benefit from vectorized operations (on CPU or GPU).
• qingcharles 2y ago
  Practically every computer device manufactured in the last 15 years has some sort of accelerator/specific instructions designed primarily for optimizing the decoding of video.