Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose...

allows applications such as VLC media player or GStreamer to use hardware video acceleration capabilities, usually provided by the graphics processing unit...

library for Windows 3.x, and their later DirectDraw interface for hardware acceleration of 2D games in Windows 95 and later. In the early- and mid-1990s...

Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be hardware-accelerated...

can be found at docs.opencv.org. An IPU may also utilise OpenCV hardware acceleration. Free and open-source software portal AForge.NET – computer vision...

264. Flash Player uses hardware acceleration to display video where present, using technologies such as DirectX Video Acceleration and OpenGL to do so....

TLS acceleration in a reverse proxy configuration. Modern x86 CPUs support Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encoding and decoding in hardware, using...

Crypto API (Linux).) The following chips, while supporting AES hardware acceleration, do not support AES-NI: AMD Geode LX processors VIA, using VIA PadLock...

direct memory access to offload certain workloads from CPU. While hardware acceleration is usually vendor-specific, direct memory access can be used by...

Quentyn (October 19, 2011). "Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has Hardware Acceleration". Phandroid. Archived from the original on October 21, 2011. Retrieved...

for XVideo; this feature is known as hardware scaling and YUV acceleration or sometimes as 2D hardware acceleration. The XFree86 X display server has implemented...

the API being run on CUDA-enabled GeForce GPUs. In both cases, hardware acceleration allowed for the offloading of physics calculations from the CPU...

as AI accelerator or deep learning processor, is a class of specialized hardware accelerator or computer system designed to accelerate artificial intelligence...

dedicated hardware for video encoding and decoding (Intel's Quick Sync Video, Nvidia's NVENC, or AMD's Video Coding Engine / Video Core Next). This hardware is...

use cryptographic accelerators such as AES-NI if available. TLS acceleration Hardware-based Encryption "Support for OpenSSL 3.0.x libraries from UNIX...

DirectShow uses DirectSound's hardware audio acceleration capabilities if the sound card's hardware audio acceleration capabilities exist and are exposed...

(sometimes referred to as slice-level acceleration) WMV9: Windows Media Video 9 codec Full hardware acceleration techniques Intel graphic processing units...

known as "slice level acceleration") for not only MPEG-2 but also MPEG-4 ASP video on VIA Unichrome (S3 Graphics Chrome Series) hardware. XvMC was the first...

and 3D acceleration. 2D acceleration was provided by the venerable XFree86 Acceleration Architecture, XAA, which made the video card's 2D hardware acceleration...

Documentation. Retrieved 2025-05-01. "Hardware Acceleration Overview". MediaBrowserWiki. Retrieved March 6, 2019. "Using Hardware-Accelerated Streaming". Plex...

authentication code. It has fast software performance, and without hardware acceleration, is usually faster than AES-GCM.: §B  The two building blocks of...

cores in the RDNA 4 architecture. AMD stated that due to requiring hardware acceleration, FSR 4 was limited to the Radeon RX 9000 series. Call of Duty: Black...

such as games. Direct3D uses hardware acceleration if available on the graphics card, allowing for hardware acceleration of the entire 3D rendering pipeline...

engineers have employed simulation acceleration, emulation or prototyping on reprogrammable hardware to verify and debug hardware and software for SoC designs...

in Microsoft Windows since Windows Vista that enables the use of hardware acceleration to render the graphical user interface of Windows. It was originally...

need to be re-rendered by the application. Windows 7 includes GDI hardware acceleration for blitting operations in the Windows Display Driver Model v1.1...

have announced support for hardware acceleration of the WebM format. Intel is also considering hardware-based acceleration for WebM in its Atom-based...

synthesis assets. Celoxica continues to trade concentrating on hardware acceleration to process transactions in the financial sector and other industries...

extensions to the x86 and ARM instruction set architecture which support hardware acceleration of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) family. It was specified in 2013...

path, or sometimes as coprocessors. These units allowed direct hardware acceleration of very specific but complex mathematical problems, like the Fourier-transform...