Hm ? You mentioned that the average size of an HVEC encoded movie is 50-60GB.
It is generally thought to be twice as effective as H.264. So their 100GB estimate should be in the right ballpark, no ?
They will probably shift to H.265 when the specs, PS4 playback client and authoring tools are ready.
If they have to do software decoding of H.265 because dedicated decoding silicon isn't ready, that may mean the fan runs noisy.
Not a good movie viewing experience.
Why? It seems a cheap to enable video within games (PIP video chat, etc).Sony will in most likelyhood not have fixed function H264 decoders.
Sony will in most likelyhood not have fixed function H264 decoders.
Why? It seems a cheap to enable video within games (PIP video chat, etc).
Sony will in most likelyhood not have fixed function H264 decoders.
All modern GPUs have fixed function video decoding. Shaders do postprocesses (such as deinterlacing, denoising, etc).
And power-efficient. There's a reason why all those cell-phone processors have dedicated video decoding blocks despite the fact that they have become powerful enough to decode in software.
When people say h.264 hardware, I take it as given they don't mean explicitly h.264 and nothing else! What's meant is 'logic that'll decode h.264 video', and whether it does anything else is another matter, but the important point is cheap (silicon and power draw) hardware is going to used specifically for the task for de/(en?)coding instead of having the CPU+GPU do it.
Well apparently the H.264 decoding silicon wasn't available for the original PS3 design.
Have you read the preceding posts in this thread?
We're likely to see hardware H.264 and software H.265 decoding with the PS4. My question is did they ever bother including hardware H.264 decoding in any of the PS3 revisions? I would think that with all of the media content the system does now and how cheap fixed function silicon is, not sticking it in would be a real waste.
Do you actually know the difference between "hardware H.264 and software H.265 decoding"?
Also, if there is one thing Cell is good at it is decoding video.