2014-02-04, 02:42
(2014-02-04, 02:25)doveman2 Wrote: By the way, what does the Hardware Acceleration (OpenMax) option in settings signify? It's on by default but I presume this isn't anything to do with accelerating those formats that the RPi does natively, as I can't imagine why anyone would would to disable this, particularly as the CPU isn't powerful enough to decode them by itself.
It does what you'd imagine. It will force software decode. It could make sense if you have, say an SD MPEG-4 video which is misbehaving.
The software decoder may be able to keep up. I can't imagine it to be frequently useful, but may be useful for debugging.
