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What does hardware acceleration mean?

I saw that it was used mainly for animations and other visual effects. Fancy CSS3 stuff, flash movie playback, stuff like that. I do not know if I have ever seen this when it had nothing to do with web browsers, although this may simply be the result of the fact that I have not read any technical literature that is not related to web development.

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This is when you have hardware designed to speed up a specific function.

So, for example, when decoding or encoding a video, you do this on the CPU. Some video cards allow you to do this on your GPU, so now you have "hardware accelerated video decoding."

Thus, two users, with and without hardware acceleration, will see more or less the same visual effects, but one without it may have fewer frames or resolution, etc. Or it could mean that the other part of the computer is getting hotter and it looks the same on both.

In another example, you can use a 3D package and you can get 30 frames per second. If you add a smart graphic card that the 3D package can use directly, now you can get 60 frames per second. Hardware accelerated the process!

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make sure your browser view is set to 100%. In Chrome on iOs, you can do this by pressing cmd + 0.

I noticed that if browser viewing is reduced or upward, png images with transparencies will be distorted in the flash animation.

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