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    Offloading videoprocessing to GPU

    Discussion in 'HP' started by hustheman, Jul 16, 2009.

  1. hustheman

    hustheman Notebook Evangelist

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    Everytime i play a video of any kinda i see my cpu usage spike to about 80 percent, using GPUZ i find that my GPU is downclocked to save power.

    Doesnt Nvidia have something that offloads video processing to the GPU?

    i am running latest official drivers (186.03)


    specs in sig
     
    hustheman, Jul 16, 2009
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    If you are using VLC set it to directx accelerated mode or opengl same with other decent media players.
     
    weinter, Jul 16, 2009
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  3. hustheman

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    yeah thats why i use vlc for all mine stuff. but i was wondering for like youtube and other embedded videos online, is there anyway to offload that?
     
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  4. weinter

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    No flash based are CPU based until they come out with a GPU offload.
    GPU only does scaling in flash not playback.
     
    weinter, Jul 16, 2009
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    And since adobe has a virtual monopoly with flash I don't think they care. It's the single most resource consuming consumer application for years. Let's hope MS can achieve something better with silverlight, although I have doubts
     
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  6. hustheman

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    ah ok, also does firefox hate flash or something, when ever i run flash videos with it it spikes my cpu but like i used safari today (accidentally install when i upgraded my itunes, and went what the heck lets try it) it doesnt go past 20 percnet
     
    hustheman, Jul 17, 2009
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    Can you screenshot it or something because they use the same flash plugin.
     
    weinter, Jul 17, 2009
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  8. hustheman

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    well son of a gun its normal like you said now all playing normal quailty at 20ish and high at 40ish guess i left FF open too long and its memory leak got to it or something
     
    hustheman, Jul 17, 2009
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