decoding

Hello, I am not from the US so every component I will be talking about are in PAL format. NTSC is not an option here and I do not know enough about these old tech. I would like to loselessly capture videos from all the VHS and Betamax tapes that I have because I heard that they lose their...

Hi! I have noticed that while playing back videos on any website - in my case primarily YouTube - in both Chrome as well as Firefox, that the video decoding takes place as '3D' in task manager, and not as 'video decoding'. I am wondering if this is normal. Is it not ineffective to decode...

I am trying to understand details of how video encoding/decoding works so i can optimize the cpu. Can encoding use multiple cores and scale linearly? Also, does hyperthreading the cores help with improving encoding performance? or can encoding only benefit from single thread performance? Any...

I got a AMD Athlon X4 760K processor and i want a new MB because my current is just plain bad. I am on a budget but that isnt much of a problem i just dont want a 150 dollar MSI supa dupa x999999 elite motherboard :P. A red and black color pattern whould be nice but isnt a requirement. Anyone...