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		Havoc on April 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WebM support on 4chan I was under the impression that one is hardware accelerated while the other is not?

wolf550e on April 6, 2014 [–]

While some systems do have H.264 encoders, bstar77 is using x264 which runs only on the CPU and produces much higher quality output than any hardware encoder[1].

1 - http://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2012/#...

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