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0 pointsimaginenore10y ago0 comments

You're confusing hardware encoding with software encoding. Your phone doesn't do it on its CPU (or GPU for that matter). The camera module usually has a separate chip for the encoding.

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talonstriker10y ago

It's not part of the Camera module, but you're right that there is a dedicated h/w core for it.

Some lower end SoCs just do it in the DSP.

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0 pointsimaginenore10y ago0 comments

You're confusing hardware encoding with software encoding. Your phone doesn't do it on its CPU (or GPU for that matter). The camera module usually has a separate chip for the encoding.

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talonstriker10y ago

It's not part of the Camera module, but you're right that there is a dedicated h/w core for it.

Some lower end SoCs just do it in the DSP.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse