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The primary advantage of dedicated hardware accelerators for the past ~15 years been power efficiency, rather than performance. Not much of a problem on a deskt
by creshal 3mo ago
The primary advantage of dedicated hardware accelerators for the past ~15 years been power efficiency, rather than performance. Not much of a problem on a desktop, but very noticeable on mobile devices.
- faragon 3mo ago8K decoding needs HW acceleration, unless having 8-16 cores with AVX-512.
- krzyk 3mo agoYes, but that's way out of budget for most consumers.
- prima-facie 3mo agoActually not really, Lunar Lake chips with Xe2 graphics have VVC decoding in hardware which can do 8K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Video_Coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Video_Coding
- jonathanlydall 3mo agoThey were likely saying that 8K displays are way out of budget for most consumers.
- aboardRat4 3mo agoWhere I live, we have 50 inch 8k TVs for 180 USD.
- jonathanlydall 3mo agoDo many people use Firefox on 50" 8K TVs as opposed to regular monitors? I wouldn't want such a large display on a computer unless the computer is being used as media server. And my experience when I got new monitors for work about 18 months ago, was that decent ones at higher than 1440p were more expensive than I felt was worth it. Also, I expect one or more of the following from a 50" 8K TV at that price: - Bundled with ad/spyware. - Poor image and/or sound quality. - Doesn’t last long, or image quality very noticeably degrades after a relatively short amount of use. I also wonder if perhaps it’s still like back when HD was still new, where TVs would advertise “Full HD”, but were actually only referring to being able to accept a 1080p input signal which they would then downscale to their <720p LCD panels.
- aboardRat4 3mo agoAll of that is probably true, but playing YouTube on such a cheap TV is a very valid use-case for Firefox.
- BoingBoomTschak 3mo agoI could also imagine the decoded output being pluggable into Vulkan-based filters (mpv uses https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libplacebo https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libplacebo) without slow device->host copying.
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