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		felixfurtak on Oct 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones Most video encoding is mp4-type now (rather than the mp2-type used by dvds). Mp4 is typically a lot more processor intensive.

ZoFreX on Oct 25, 2013 [–]

Any even vaguely modern laptop offloads mpeg 4 part 10 decoding onto a decoder chip or the GPU.

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