Do you know what this function does?
Do you know if you need it or not?
The Hardware Decoder is not for every application. It can be the reason you are having video issues since updating. You may need to just reset the H-D. Such as disable and power everything down. Power up once again and enable the H-D.
Hardware decoding in general can also lead to glitches/artifacts in the video if your device is not powerful enough. Manufacturers install multimedia chipsets to assist video decoding process specifically, so the hardware decoder is using these chipsets to play videos.
If you have a powerful device, the H-D would be more helpful because it can allow playback of media when the app decoding is too slow, or lagging.
An example would be; when you try to play a video from YouTube using 1080p h.264 video on a mobile phone. Most phones would have a hard time playing the GO4 app and still get smooth playback, so H-D would be able to do the job smooth.
Now, on computers, the H-D is unnecessary in most cases since most new computers are fast enough to play high quality media files, so it's not necessary for you to use H-D on your PC.
If you are having video issues try enabling or disabling the H-D from the menu. If either way doesn't help, then start shutting down anything that is running in the back ground. You can then go back and try the H-D function again since some settings have changed.
Btw, if your device shuts down and you have the black screen, by touch see if it is hot. When this kind of shut down happens, it is almost always related to too many processes running, and you will need to make changes. In most situations this will not show up until you have installed a different app version.
Do you know if you need it or not?
The Hardware Decoder is not for every application. It can be the reason you are having video issues since updating. You may need to just reset the H-D. Such as disable and power everything down. Power up once again and enable the H-D.
Hardware decoding in general can also lead to glitches/artifacts in the video if your device is not powerful enough. Manufacturers install multimedia chipsets to assist video decoding process specifically, so the hardware decoder is using these chipsets to play videos.
If you have a powerful device, the H-D would be more helpful because it can allow playback of media when the app decoding is too slow, or lagging.
An example would be; when you try to play a video from YouTube using 1080p h.264 video on a mobile phone. Most phones would have a hard time playing the GO4 app and still get smooth playback, so H-D would be able to do the job smooth.
Now, on computers, the H-D is unnecessary in most cases since most new computers are fast enough to play high quality media files, so it's not necessary for you to use H-D on your PC.
If you are having video issues try enabling or disabling the H-D from the menu. If either way doesn't help, then start shutting down anything that is running in the back ground. You can then go back and try the H-D function again since some settings have changed.
Btw, if your device shuts down and you have the black screen, by touch see if it is hot. When this kind of shut down happens, it is almost always related to too many processes running, and you will need to make changes. In most situations this will not show up until you have installed a different app version.
