Difference between revisions of "Hardware acceleration"

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Hardware acceleration is a method of speeding up computer processing by shifting work to a computer part that can do the job faster. Hardware acceleration for VLC generally refers to using your graphics card for better performance. See [[GPU decoding]] or the [[Video Acceleration API]] (GNU/Linux-specific).
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Latest revision as of 06:23, 9 February 2019

Hardware acceleration is a method of speeding up computer processing by shifting work to a computer part that can do the job faster. Hardware acceleration for VLC generally refers to using your graphics card for better performance. See GPU decoding or the Video Acceleration API (GNU/Linux-specific).