HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

Laptops with sixth-generation Intel Core and later processors have built-in hardware support for HEVC decoding and encoding.

Dell and HP turned off HEVC decoding on recent laptops without telling anyone

Users on various forums have been troubleshooting video playback errors on newer Dell and HP laptops over the past few weeks. While the specific issues vary, ...
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PathPartner Technology Announces Industry’s First Hybrid Hardware-Software HEVC Decoder Optimized for Programmable SoC Devices

Hybrid HEVC Decoder uses ARM CPU and FPGA fabric optimally enabling flexible, highly integrated video systems at lower overall system cost PathPartner Technology, a leading provider of embedded ...
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Allegro DVT Showcases the First HEVC Video Hardware Decoder IP at CES 2013

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), alias H.265, is the next generation video standard, currently being developed by the JCT-VC team. JCT-VC is a joint team between MPEG and VCEG. The finalized HEVC ...
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The Pros and Cons of Software Decoding for Publishers and Viewers

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 ...