While the recent war of words between Adobe and Apple over the inclusion of Flash in the latter’s mobile devices is unlikely to reach a cease fire anytime soon, Apple giveth as well as taketh away.

Michael Tsai reports (via Daring Fireball) that Apple has posted a new technical note describing how third-party developers can tap into hardware-accelerated decoding of H.264 video on compatible ...

Anecdotal user reports say that the new MacBooks are much more adept at playing Hi-Def video than the the previous generation MacBook Pro. The Aluminum MacBook's processor runs around 75% slower when ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Melbourne, Australia (February 1, 2019) – In yet another world first BirdDog () today announced ...

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 ...

On2 Technologies announced the release of the Hantro 8190 multi-format configurable hardware RTL video decoder. Offering mobile phone and device designers a highly optimized hardware decoder, the ...

AMD's Unified Decoder has been the object of envy in the open-source community for some time. The silicon, which ships on the company's Radeon graphics cards, offers hardware-accelerated video ...

Exciting news from Plex, the media center for Mac OS X that won my heart a long time ago. The devs have announced that they’ve integrated Apple’s new video decode acceleration framework into the ...

Here lately, MSI has definitely been on the notebook kick. Day after day, we've seen new laptop after new laptop emerge to fit pretty much every budget and every wish list. Today, however, the company ...

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 ...

As noted by project manager Thibault Imbert, Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 for Mac has been updated to enable hardware-accelerated decoding of video content, offering smoother playback, lower system ...