Recently we told you about the new GPU acceleration that is available in the latest release of VLC version 1.1.0. Anandtech has taken this latest version of VLC for a spin to see how well it really performs. What is their take on the new upgrades? Well, you can read the article for yourself – it really does have some good information in it – or you can just read the summary below.
VLC has taken the important first step towards enabling GPU acceleration for various codecs commonly used in high definition videos. However, they have been crippled by their application structure, resulting in the fact that they are unable to provide the same amount of acceleration as other methods like DXVA using MPC-HC / Windows Media Player. While the untested Arrandale provided around 5% CPU usage improvement for VC-1 decode, PureVideo VP2 had speed-ups of around 60% for H264 and 20% for VC1. PureVideo VP4 turned out to be the best of the lot when GPU acceleration is enabled. CPU usage was lesser by a factor more than 65% for H264 and 36% for VC1.
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