Questions tagged [hardware-acceleration]
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Confirm correctly working of hardware acceleration in Chrome (Windows 7)?
I'm having troubles getting hardware acceleration support for Youtube.
Both Windows and flash player are enabled for hardware acceleration.
The drivers for the graphics card are installed.
The ...
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How do I know when to use hardware acceleration?
I'm not sure I know what hardware acceleration ("...use of computer hardware to perform some function faster") is, but when I play flash games, or 3D FPS games, I'm asked if I want to use hardware ...
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What are 2D Video Acceleration and 3D acceleration?
In VirtualBox, you can set your VM to use 2D Video Acceleration and 3D acceleration... But what is it? The question is not about their use in that software but in general.
What are 2D Video ...
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How to force Chrome to use integrated GPU for decoding?
I want Chrome to utilize iGPU (GT630 on i7-8700k) for video decoding, especially VP9 decoding on YouTube. My discrete GPU is GTX970 and it is not capable of decoding VP9. Currently, VP9 is software ...
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Does "use hardware acceleration when available" feature in google chrome consume more battery?
I want to know when i enable "use hardware acceleration when available" feature in google chrome, it consume more battery? what is the advantage of this feature? is it better to enable or disable this ...
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How do I enable GPU acceleration on new Hyper-V virtual machines? (Can't use remoteFX)
I've recently set up a Hyper-V virtual machine that runs Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit, the host OS is also running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
I want the VM to be able to play games, I tried to play a game but it'...
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Silverlight hardware-accelerated playback is greyed-out - How do I enable it?
I am trying to play Netflix videos (which only play via Silverlight), but they play choppy because Silverlight's hardware-accelerated playback is disabled.
(video playback on WMP11 and VLC is ...
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Does Raspberry Pi 4 support AES hardware acceleration?
I have Raspberry Pi 4 B (4GB version), I wonder if it supports AES hardware acceleration (so some special instruction set for CPU for faster encryption).
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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All chrome popups display with transparency bug in chrome in a VM
I spend a lot of time using virtual machines, and a lot of that time using Chrome.
All of the browser dialogs, such as those for extensions, but also things such as chrome prompting certain things ...
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Beaglebone Black OpenSSl crypto acceleration
I'm running Debian Wheezy at my Beaglebone Black. Is OpenSSL using the hardware crypto accelerator by default? If no, how can I enable it?
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Best Intel Quick Sync software for h.264 transcoding
I would like to know the best (fast) software for video encoding and transcoding video into h.264 that makes use of Intel Quick Sync.
I looked at Media Espresso by Cyberlink but it does not have many ...
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Disable Java Hardware Acceleration in windows?
I have some issues with my graphics card and I want to disable Hardware Acceleration for java apps. Everything that uses HA is displayed blurry.
I've seen some tutorials on how to set this parameter -...
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Intel HD4000 - Code 12 - This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use
System:
CPU Core i7 3770K
Motherboard Asus P8Z77-V with latest BIOS
RAM 32GB DDR3-1333
RAID Adaptec 6405E in a PCI-E 3.0 x4 slot
HDDs 2 x Seagate 4TB 7200RPM
GPUs Intel HD4000 (on-CPU) and Radeon ...
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How do I check if my system supports hardware acceleration? Is it on the CPU or motherboard?
What is hardware acceleration? How can I check if my system supports it?
Is it a property of the CPU or Motherboard?
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How do I disable hardware acceleration in Windows 7?
I am using Cubase 5 and currently having problems with Asio Time overload which is not enabling me to produce my work properly. I have tried all the relevant checks with my graphics card (such as ...
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What hardware would be best for accelerating conversion of video files?
What kind of hardware could I get (CPU type, Video Card, MotherBoard, etc...) to aid in the conversion of video files (not the playback of video files)?
I generally use AVS products (avsforyou.com).
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Virtualization inside VirtualBox (nested virtualization)
I have created a Debian VM (using VirtualBox in my Windows 10 host machine) and installed various features necessary for developing an android application. While installing Android Studio,
I noticed ...
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ffmpeg not working using h264_vaapi
I'm trying to transcode a video using ffmpeg with hardware acceleration using the following command:
sudo ffmpeg -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_output_format vaapi \
-vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i ...
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Oldest Intel CPU generation that supports Zoom video conferencing
I am trying to recommend a laptop to someone who will have to use it for a lot of Zoom meetings.
I have a personal and work laptop, and my personal laptop is overwhelmed with Zoom conferences (even 1:...
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Hardware acceleration on Ubuntu
I have a Thinkpad x120e with AMD Radeon HD 6300 graphics. Under Windows 7, the machine can play full screen 1080p videos on YouTube well with some occasional hiccups, and 720p videos with no problem ...
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Does ffmpeg really use my Graphics card to encode?
I have a NVIDIA Quadro P620.
I have a lot of research on how to accelerate my transcoding using my graphic card.
I stumble on this page
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro#...
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Flash Player (e.g. plugin) crashes when play a video?
Not sure where to put this, but Chrome, Firefox and IE crashes (the flash player) when I try to watch a video like on youtube.
The screen goes green then a few seconds later it freezes.
Same goes ...
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Does Intel HD Graphics 3000 support hardware acceleration for Flash?
If I were to skip a discrete video card and just get an Intel Core i5 2500k CPU, would the integrated GPU support hardware acceleration for Flash? If so, is that just on Windows? What about Mac? Linux?...
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How can I know if my media player is using hardware acceleration?
I'm using The KMPlayer for my media playback needs, especially because it has faster startup time even with larger media files. But I'm not sure whether it is utilizing hardware acceleration or not (...
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Does Microsoft MultiPoint Server 2011 support hardware 3D acceleration and dual-head?
I know the original purpose is different, but could MultiPoint be used for gaming as well?
update this seems to be rather neglected, but what about audio? Does MultiPoint Server support more then one ...
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Why does xserver require a physical screen?
I was searching for a solution to run a graphical application without a physical screen. The application is showing multiple hardware accelerated video streams with gstramer-vaapi.
I dont want to ...
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How to undervolt a laptop CPU
I have a Dell Inspiron 7559 laptop and it's processor is core i7-6700HQ.
I have read some articles about undervolting the CPU and its benefit and I want to do it for my laptop.
I have some ...
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Strongswan enable ESP packets hardware acceleration
My Linux kernel already support CESA hardware acceleration, and openssl can use this feature:
# openssl speed -evp des3 -elapsed
# cat /proc/interrupts | grep cesa
51: 464810 GIC cesa0
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nvidia and mplayer: "[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure."
I've been getting this error message every time I run mplayer, no matter what video rendering method I choose. I've tried vdpau, xv, and gl. I thought maybe mplayer is reverting to software rendering. ...
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How can I enable "acceleration using solid-state hybrid drive"
My Laptop is a Lenovo Y5070-B that has an SSHD hard drive. SATA Controller Mode was in AHCI mode and it doesn't have RAID mode. There are only two options: AHCI and Compatible.
When I set this option ...
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Rendering a frame is producing noise from speakers in Windows and Linux
When any hardware accelerated application is rendering a frame (or many of them) a very short noise is coming from my speakers. This can be a game, a WebGL application or XBMC. When the application/...
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Getting a matrix of capacitance data from a touchpad
I would like to access the raw data from my touchpad before the data is processed into a single X,Y coordinate. Instead, I would like a grid of values as portrayed here:
(image from howstuffworks.com/...
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Program freezes when playing video with hardware acceleration
When I watch video online (flash) or locally (any type), the video screen turns green and then freezes after a few seconds.
It'll be fine if I disable hardware acceleration.
This only happens ...
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OpenGL/webGL not working, nouveau drivers
Title says it, OpenGL software crashes and Chromium says hardware acceleration is not available for webGL, though they should be supported by nouveau drivers.
Running 64-bit Arch linux with xfce4 ...
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VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available
I have a dell inspiron 1525 note book with Win7. I am trying to install Win8 on Virtualbox.
But I am getting the error:
VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Certain ...
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Why Does Text Get Squished Up In Word 2010 With A Translucent Watermark?
You may experience an anomaly in Word 2010 that looks like this:
The expected result is supposed to be normally-displayed text. In the picture below, the text that is circled contains approximately ...
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Hardware for FFMPEG video encoding?
So I am trying to find out what the best way to transcode using FFMPEG would be on a commercial scale. I currently just have very CPU heavy cloud instances that run FFMPEG with parameters set as a ...
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Multi-texturing error in a game
While trying to play a game, it gives error:
This program requires multi-texturing, which is not supported by your hardware.
I have Dell D630 Laptop (with Windows 7 32-bit), I can remember this ...
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Client-Server; Master-Slave; Host-?
What would be the complementing metaphor for a system comprised of a host computer running an application and an accelerator system doing some specific type of calculations? What is a good name for ...
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Can I force IE10 to use accelerated GPU rendering?
In my copy of IE10, the option "Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering" (on the "Advanced" tab in the options) is checked by default and greyed oun so that it cannot be disabled using the UI. ...
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Flip video with hardware acceleration ffmpeg on Windows 11
I am trying to use hardware acceleration to horizontally flip videos but I can't seem to get it right. I don't want to change the codec but just keep the same (just hflipped).
I am using Intel Arc Pro ...
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Screen flickering on HP Victus Windows 11
I recently purchased a new HP Victus laptop and every time I used Chrome or Edge, the screen would flicker. This issue isn't happening on any other apps or any other browser like Firefox.
I then came ...
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FFmpeg h264_qsv: Error initializing an internal MFX session: unsupported (-3)
Im using ffmpeg build for Windows from gyan.dev: release ffmpeg-5.0-full-build with hardware-support.
I need to capture a video from a USB video device, compress it and write it to a file.
I am using ...
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How is I/O encryption handled in modern systems? [closed]
First: I've struggled with the question on which stackexchange to post this question since it involves OS knowledge, hardware knowledge but probably also other CS fields. Suggestions for a better ...
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MP4 Files encoded with ffmpeg do not play back on Kodi with hardware acceleration
I have encoded some files with FFmpeg using ubuntu 16.04 with FFmpeg from ubuntu repos
ffmpeg version 2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
encoder : Lavf56.40.101
Since I disassembled a video frame by ...
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HEVC/x265 :: VLC Player GPU Hardware Acceleration :: Intel HD Graphics 4400
I'm using a Laptop with configurations Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4310U Haswell CPU / Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400 GPU / Windows 7.
I've installed latest drivers (10.18.14.4414) to support HEVC/x265 Hardware ...
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Why do YouTube videos become greyish in Chrome if hardware acceleration is disabled?
Update: One of the tests has shown that the problem persists on certain devices even if the hardware acceleration is enabled. The 4 screenshots below were taken on Windows 10, Chrome 47.0.2526.111 m (...
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D3D11 hardware screen recording with ffmpeg using Intel H264 QSV hardware encoding
I'm trying to screen record using ffmpeg and having it all done via hardware on my Intel integrated graphics.
Specs
For reference, here are my specs:
Windows 11 Pro Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631
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How to achieve the same performance of Geforce Experience using FFMpeg screen capture
I have a NVidia card and currently use Geforce Experience to do screen capturing. GE performance is really excellent and even if I record a video in 4K, 60 FPS, and high bit rate, I don't experience ...
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ffmpeg shows "get_buffer() failed". Is this a bug?
ffmpeg version 2023-06-19-git-1617d1a752-full_build-www.gyan.dev
i7-1255U, Windows 11
The command line is
"ffmpeg.exe" -y -hwaccel qsv -ss 00:00:03.461 -to 00:00:12.009 -i "input....
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