Then why do they put it on the phones? surely manufacturers would love to cut the part?
reply> Even formats like H.264 are being dropped from some hardware decode engines because it’s so easy to do on CPUs now, as can be seen even on the Raspberry Pi 5
replyCPU decode efficiency most certainly was not the reason h.264 was dropped on the Pi
Dropping it was an option because CPU decode was sufficient.
replySufficient is objective. My hardware is certainly sufficient at decoding video without performance problems, but with with CPU decode, it takes more resources and ramps up the fans. While with GPU decoding, it's near silent.
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