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To: sylvester80 who wrote (92408)	2/21/2010 4:09:34 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

>>Does that mean that you need a GPU to get HTML5 h.264 performing at a decent rate or that it does not run at all without a GPU???<< The question isn't whether or not one has a GPU. All of our computers have GPUs. It's a question of whether or not the software routes the hardware acceleration calls to the GPU or not. If not, the CPU has to do all the work of decoding the H.264 stream. Since the CPU doesn't have dedicated circuitry for doing this, it has to be done with software. You can stream H.264 video without using hardware acceleration, but the performance may be affected by other programs that are also utilizing the CPU.