That still leaves every other capable piece of hardware out in the cold.
The 9400M G gets love but not the Mac Pro?
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Apple Enabled GPU Hardware Decoding of h.264 on New MacBooks, Pros and Airs?
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The 9400M G gets love but not the Mac Pro?
What hardware decoding of h.264 is on the Mac Pro?
Would you please elaborate?
Touché, Eidorian!
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units
the GeForce 8800 GT computes a whopping 504 GFLOPs
where as the GeForce 9400 GT kneels down with a mere 67.2 GFLOPs
That's for raw computing power (do I hear CUDA, anyone?)
As for the video decoding API support;
-the 8800 has PureVideo 3 with VP3, BSP Engine, and AES128 Engine
-the 9400 has PureVideo 2 with VP2, BSP Engine, and AES128 Engine
Hows that for a DOWNGRADE hidden behind the product naming?
It has been all about selling "new" features for years now.
I love
's UI and design, but I'd like (as a Technically Savvy Person) the software to bee in par with the hardware.
Microsoft actually has been more open about GPU video decoding (and encoding, for that matter) in their operating systems, because Microsoft's revenue doesn't involve selling hardware as much as Apple.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units
the GeForce 8800 GT computes a whopping 504 GFLOPs
where as the GeForce 9400 GT kneels down with a mere 67.2 GFLOPs
That's for raw computing power (do I hear CUDA, anyone?)
As for the video decoding API support;
-the 8800 has PureVideo 3 with VP3, BSP Engine, and AES128 Engine
-the 9400 has PureVideo 2 with VP2, BSP Engine, and AES128 Engine
Hows that for a DOWNGRADE hidden behind the product naming?
It has been all about selling "new" features for years now.
I love
's UI and design, but I'd like (as a Technically Savvy Person) the software to bee in par with the hardware.Microsoft actually has been more open about GPU video decoding (and encoding, for that matter) in their operating systems, because Microsoft's revenue doesn't involve selling hardware as much as Apple.
Touché, Eidorian!
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units
the GeForce 8800 GT computes a whopping 504 GFLOPs
where as the GeForce 9400 GT kneels down with a mere 67.2 GFLOPs
That's for raw computing power (do I hear CUDA, anyone?)
As for the video decoding API support;
-the 8800 has PureVideo 3 with VP3, BSP Engine, and AES128 Engine
-the 9400 has PureVideo 2 with VP2, BSP Engine, and AES128 Engine
Hows that for a DOWNGRADE hidden behind the product naming?
It has been all about selling "new" features for years now.
I love
Microsoft actually has been more open about GPU video decoding (and encoding, for that matter) in their operating systems, because Microsoft's revenue doesn't involve selling hardware as much as Apple.
You obviously dont know how naming schemes work.
Of course a High End 8800GT is going to be better than a low end 9400GT. Hell Im pretty certain a 7900GTX will outperform that 9400GT.
The only thing this post proves is your lack of knowledge.
Does that have anything to do with the fact that a lower end GPU is supported to decode h.264, but the higher end is not?
The facts remain the same. Don't discredit them.
By the way, i was referring to a post;
But of course, I understand that discrediting is important to some
The higher version number actually fools most people. It never fooled me.
Many GPUs have video acceleration since years:
nividia -> pure video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo
ati -> avivio (hd): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Avivo
Windows-Users have DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA). So everyone can use the video acceleration.
Without QTKit you can't do anything on the mac.
nividia -> pure video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo
ati -> avivio (hd): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Avivo
Windows-Users have DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA). So everyone can use the video acceleration.
Without QTKit you can't do anything on the mac.
http://ryan.plexapp.com/?p=34
Does that have anything to do with the fact that a lower end GPU is supported to decode h.264, but the higher end is not?
The facts remain the same. Don't discredit them.
By the way, i was referring to a post;
But of course, I understand that discrediting is important to some
The higher version number actually fools most people. It never fooled me.
I tend to dislike people that use touche. Plus trying to follow an arguemnt so broken up is like trying to find a blind mouse thats being lead by an erratic snail.
Well,, here it seems the blind mouse is always the consumer forced to buy new products.
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t21100.html
They felt cheated.
I don't make personal remarks, and are not offended by them.
The fact really is that GPU decoding has been around for ages, but for reasons said, implementation is quite nonexistent.
Mpeg2 decodes on GPU (with the right propietary software) on all major platforms (Linux, OSX, Windows), why not H.264?
Can anyone shed light on this one?