Playing H.264 content on your PC

Posted on Wednesday, August 03 2005 @ 9:46 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

The Inquirer has taken a look at playing H.264 content on your PC, without graphics card hardware acceleration (which isn't available yet).

We were intrigued with H.264 content and the ability to play it back, and we spend two days of testing and finally came to some conclusions. At this time there is no graphic card hardware acceleration for this fancy codec.

It's very CPU dependent and we have some advice for both Intel, AMD and Apple computer users.

Check out there test report over here

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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