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Your GPU is probably making VLC stutter during 4K playback — here's the fix

My 4K videos stuttered in VLC until I turned off one setting.
Nature

Local clustering decoder as a fast and adaptive hardware decoder for the surface code

To avoid prohibitive overheads in performing fault-tolerant quantum computation, the decoding problem needs to be solved accurately and at speeds sufficient for fast feedback. Existing decoding ...
Macworld

Apple makes hardware video decoding available to developers

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.
Streaming Media Magazine

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 ...