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	speculatrix	2009-12-28 , 20:29
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Originally Posted by svu

BTW, would hardware acceleration benefit things like playing movies? I know it is 2D, but if media player could do it using HW-accelerated GL... At least on PC VLC can use GL for output

I would hope it could lead to
* fast scrolling of big web pages
* fast task/page switching
* game acceleration
* offloading some video decoder processing, in particular scaling
* offloading 2D overlays for alpha blending

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