An unofficial, but fully functional release of XBMC should make the uber-popular media center software work with almost all Android devices. About six months ago the developers of XBMC announced that ...

Stage Video makes its debut for more power-efficient video on Flash. The new version also dovetails with IE9's hardware acceleration. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Following the release of OS X Lion yesterday, a number of users immediately noticed that some of Adobe’s desktop tools, including Flash Player, had a series of compatibility issues with Apple’s new OS ...

Should you be one of those (sensible) people who don't use software until all the Greek letters are removed from its name, we've got some happy news for you. Adobe's Flash Player 10.2 has just exited ...

Windows 10 Hardware Acceleration helps users in boosting Windows OS performance and run the applications hang-free. When it is enabled, certain tasks, especially heavy tasks like video rendering and ...

My computer has been acting up recently. It is as if I have lost a major portion of video hardware acceleration.<BR><BR>Symptoms:<BR>I have had a few weird crashes, it doesn't always come back on the ...

Open source media player VLC is known as a Swiss Army knife of video players. It can handle pretty much any DRM-free video format you can throw at it, from WMV to MKV, with a little H.264, Xvid and ...

I'm trying to get a solid grasp on what, exactly, hardware acceleration does in Windows 7, and when (if ever) it would be a good reason to turn it off. Here's the issue: I have a user here who uses a ...

Adobe launched its Flash Player 10.2 with hardware accelerated video. The gist is that Adobe says it can now deliver video more efficiently with less strain on your PC. Flash Player 10.2 shed its beta ...

There is a well-documented explosion of online video traffic that’s been occurring for some time now. According to Cisco’s Virtual Networking Index reportlast June, online video could make up 82% of ...

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