video decode
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On a desk top running Mint with xbmc, does xbmc automatically run hardware decoding?
How does it switch from software to hardware decoding?
If I play YouTube videos in Mint is it using software or hardware decoding

know a little but not enought
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If you have auto-detect selected in settings, and have the gfx hardware that is supported you will have the graphics running through the hardware chips on your gfx card if the video is using recognized HD rendering. If your gfx card doesn't support the encoding it should default to a software rendering position. The fly in this soup, is that some codex of the same variety are not recognized well (various updates and encoding codex changes) and the default for that codex would have to be manually set. e.g. H265 works in software mode on Kodi, most gfx card decoder drivers are just not there yet, and may not have the horsepower anyway, while a lot of modern CPU's sit idling. Most 10 bit colour videos requires software decoding at this point. Try and run the latest stable version of the software, the Kodi team really works hard to keep up, so the newer the build the better.
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