2014-01-15, 06:54
(2014-01-15, 05:15)voip-ninja Wrote: There must be some drawback to software decoding otherwise no one would use hardware decoding.
Well, it uses your CPU and leaves the GPU pretty much unused, even if the GPU is purpose built HW for that kind of tasks. Higher CPU usage means higher power consumption and in case your CPU is not powerful enough it will not be able to handle the decoding. The i3 and i5 models should be fine though.