H.264 Playback: GPU support (at least partly by ANY GPU) possible?

[moviefan]

Hey guys,

I wonder if it is possible to at least partly use the GPU of ANY graphics card to decode H.264, even, if it doesn't support this by default. So I think about simply using the graphics processor as a somehow "second CPU". Is anything like this possible? The problem in my case is that my notebook (P4 2,66 GHz, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon IGP 345M) is sometimes not able to smoothly decode 720p material in H.264 and transferring some work, even if it is only a few percent, to the GPU, might help.

Regards

[burfadel]

CoreAVC Pro?

[toytown]

CoreAVC has absolutely no GPU acceleration. I purchased my copy of it almost 18 months ago, with the promise of GPU support comming soon. It still hasnt today.


The company misled there customers into thinking it would be out soon, when they clearly had no intentions whatsoever of releasing it with GPU support in any realistic timeframe, even today they state they have put it off and are working on other (what they deem more important) issues and not trying to deliver what they promised.

[ACrowley]

cyerblink H264 Decoder for example can decode H264 with GPU Support.

But not with all GPUs..dont think your ATI Radeon IGP 345M is able to do it.
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