How Does Hardware Acceleration Assist Video Conversion? Advantages of Hardware Acceleration for Video Processing But most importantly, resorting to hardware acceleration is the cut-through way to go.
Making use of coding compression to reduce code rate may be a feasible method.
For instance, when an old computer decodes H.264 video using software decoding only, the CPU usage can reach as high as over 90%. So the decoding needs weighty operation and has high requirement on the decoding power of PC, player device, editor apps, video format converters.
4K video is high in resolution and definition (roughly 4 times of 1080p high definition video) and bulky in file size.Hardware acceleration lends itself to compress 4K UHD video files because: See how hardware acceleration benefits the following types of 4K videos, respectively: They will cause data explosion, posing a big pressure on CPU calculation accordingly, and even damage your CPU. However, what they collect are the raw video data signals, and mostly are a series of continuous and dynamic video signals. Such cutting-edge gadgets catch on with household users and entertainment enthusiasts, and in professional fields. The same thing will happen on HD/UHD videos recorded from GoPro, drone, car DVR and monitor units which are also large in video size and high in definition, resolution, bitrate, code rate and frame rate. When playing the large 4K H.264 or HEVC video files without hardware acceleration, your player has great chance to crash, stutter, lag (become slower) or freeze or has errors in reading, loading, or playing. Then what video types should specifically run for GPU-based hardware acceleration in the case that your operation system is configured with corresponding hardware (Intel®, AMD®, Nvidia® GPUs) for acceleration?Ībove all, it must be 4K/2160p videos, the attention of which hits an all-time high, and the frequency being mentioned on the internet is even beyond 1080p video from time to time. GPU computing is propitious to the video processing with large data volume, or say intensive, highly parallel and simple controllable computing that will be executed in stages. It is not necessarily that GPU acceleration wins every bit over CPU acceleration in the battle of video encoding and decoding, since video processing speed is decided by many factors anyway, but hardware acceleration will boost video processing speed by 2-3 times faster or even higher generally.
Now you don't have to tolerate player crashing/stutter/freezing/lag, CPU overheat, etc. Application of Hardware Acceleration on Videos