An unofficial, but fully functional release of XBMC should make the uber-popular media center software work with almost all Android devices. About six months ago the developers of XBMC announced that ...

Stage Video makes its debut for more power-efficient video on Flash. The new version also dovetails with IE9's hardware acceleration. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Following the release of OS X Lion yesterday, a number of users immediately noticed that some of Adobe’s desktop tools, including Flash Player, had a series of compatibility issues with Apple’s new OS ...

Microsoft has revealed that hardware-based video acceleration is now available in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This change brings several performance and efficiency gains to WSL. Microsoft has ...

I'm trying to get a solid grasp on what, exactly, hardware acceleration does in Windows 7, and when (if ever) it would be a good reason to turn it off. Here's the issue: I have a user here who uses a ...

My computer has been acting up recently. It is as if I have lost a major portion of video hardware acceleration. Symptoms: I have had a few weird crashes, it doesn't always come back on the first boot ...

Windows 10 Hardware Acceleration helps users in boosting Windows OS performance and run the applications hang-free. When it is enabled, certain tasks, especially heavy tasks like video rendering and ...