Hardware Video decode ??

[pierrehugo]

When I play a movie in VLC that is in the H264 format, and my graphics card supports hardware acceloration in this format, does that mean that I use it, or do I need special plugins and/or drivers ??

 

[scotty777]

When I play a movie in VLC that is in the H264 format, and my graphics card supports hardware acceloration in this format, does that mean that I use it, or do I need special plugins and/or drivers ??

no, all it means is that your graphics card take the load and not your cpu,