Hardware companies benefit from tangible demand, secured orders, and near-term cash flows, while software faces uncertainty around model economics, disruption risks, and capex payoff. Hardware and ...

A recent paper from Friedrich-Alexander University benchmarks energy consumption and compression efficiency for six video codecs across software and hardware decoders. While the study uses VP9 as a ...

I'm guessing the files were initially linked to the hardware decoder and then got overwritten to use ATI's "hardware decoder" and thus i get software decoding using a plain player.<P>I didn't try ...