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H.264 encoding

Does the current Mac Pro have hardware encoding/decoding for H.264 and/or HEVC? Maybe on the T2 chip?


Thanks very much for any clarification as it's really hard to get any pre-sale support.

Posted on Oct 29, 2020 11:12 AM

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Posted on Oct 29, 2020 12:33 PM

The 2nd generation Intel "Sandy BridgeCore i3/i5/i7 processors introduced at the January 2011 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) offer an on-chip hardware full HD H.264 encoder, known as Intel Quick Sync Video.[66][67]


A hardware H.264 encoder can be an ASIC or an FPGA.


ASIC encoders with H.264 encoder functionality are available from many different semiconductor companies, but the core design used in the ASIC is typically licensed from one of a few companies such as Chips&Media, Allegro DVT, On2 (formerly Hantro, acquired by Google), Imagination Technologies, NGCodec. Some companies have both FPGA and ASIC product offerings.[68]


Texas Instruments manufactures a line of ARM + DSP cores that perform DSP H.264 BP encoding 1080p at 30fps.[69] This permits flexibility with respect to codecs (which are implemented as highly optimized DSP code) while being more efficient than software on a generic CPU.


from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding


... based on the rest of that article, H.264 is bloody complicated!

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Oct 29, 2020 12:33 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

The 2nd generation Intel "Sandy BridgeCore i3/i5/i7 processors introduced at the January 2011 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) offer an on-chip hardware full HD H.264 encoder, known as Intel Quick Sync Video.[66][67]


A hardware H.264 encoder can be an ASIC or an FPGA.


ASIC encoders with H.264 encoder functionality are available from many different semiconductor companies, but the core design used in the ASIC is typically licensed from one of a few companies such as Chips&Media, Allegro DVT, On2 (formerly Hantro, acquired by Google), Imagination Technologies, NGCodec. Some companies have both FPGA and ASIC product offerings.[68]


Texas Instruments manufactures a line of ARM + DSP cores that perform DSP H.264 BP encoding 1080p at 30fps.[69] This permits flexibility with respect to codecs (which are implemented as highly optimized DSP code) while being more efficient than software on a generic CPU.


from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding


... based on the rest of that article, H.264 is bloody complicated!

H.264 encoding

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