hi all
somehow related to frank's question, but i would like to achieve the opposite: _more_ hw acceleration (instead of less).
i found, that on new macs, playing even full-hd h.264 quicktime files doesn't eat any noticable cpu processing. on a macbook pro unibody, it takes around 13% (says 'activity monitor') playing it with quicktime 7.X.X. the same movie played by [pix_film] from Gem from pd-extended-0.40.3 takes ~60% (of one core). if it is correct to believe, that gem makes use of the quicktime API on os x, is there a way to make it use of the gpu accelerated h.264 decoding feature?
hm.. i should have checked, whether the plain decoding uses much cpu or if probably some significant chunk is used for displaying. i'll test tomorrow, when i have access to a mac again.
any hints about the topic are welcome.
roman
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