Scotster

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As above really. What are the benefits of the onboard hardware acceleration? Will there be a noticeable quality difference with the video? The reason I ask is that most of my videos play absolutely fine, but I get the odd one (DivX5) that won't work (blank screen with stuttering audio). My solution to this, after a lot of trial and error, was to simply turn off the hardware acceleration.

I've not went to town trying everything out so thought I would just ask and see what the thoughts were.

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Scotster

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Mine has been off since yesterday and I've not noticed any difference yet. I've not mentioned it to the wife and she hasn't cracked a light about it yet either. I've got a 10GB movie to throw at it when I get a chance though. The proof may be in the pudding there.
 
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Hardware acceleration - using the GPU to decode videos, rather than the CPU.

Advantages: Takes some workload off the CPU (main brain, GPU is the graphics brain)
Disadvantages: As noted above, can lead to no video with some codecs
 
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