Adobe this week stealth-released a version of Flash Player for Mac that supports GPU decoding of H.264-encoded video. However, the "cool" feature only works on Macs with certain NVIDIA graphics cards.

Hey! Everyone’s favorite video playing software, VLC, jumped to 1.1.0 today and added some GPU decoding for Windows and Linux users as well, giving your CPU a break when you’re trying to play those ...

VideoLAN has pushed out a new finalized build of its VLC media player, adding stability as well as numerous enhancements and features. Among the more noteworthy items listed in 1.1.0's changelog is ...

Adobe has added support for GPU video decoding to the latest version of Flash Player 10.1 for Mac. That means Mac users no longer have to grab a beta version of Adobe Flash in order to see the ...

Does a utility exist that will query the installed GPU and report whether it supports hardware-accelerated encode and decode of h.264, h.265, etc? Because googling an AMD part number and trying to ...

The new Nvidia graphics in Apple’s latest notebooks will heavily come into play with Snow Leopard, which will leverage GPUs for parallel processing. But Apple might have already uncorked some of that ...

The awesome VLC Media Player has been updated to version 1.1.0, bringing GPU-accelerated decoding to video playback: . GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 . GPU ...

Tonight, forum user MGLXP noticed that playback of 1080p high definition trailers from Apple took far less CPU time on his new aluminum MacBook (28% CPU) as compared to his old MacBook Pro (100% CPU).

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Have you launched VLC today? If so then you’ll already know that it has been updated to version 1.1.0. The biggest feature in this version is the addition of GPU decoding for Windows (Vista and 7 only ...