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Does FFMpeg support gpu acceleration of media encoding/decoding?
I was wondering if ffmpeg supported gpu acceleration. I was reading on their websites and came across contradicting information.
http://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html#Video-Codecs
-H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 ...
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Unable to debug an encodded javascript?
I’m having some problems debugging an encoded javacscript. This script I’m referring to given in this link over here.
The encoding here is simple and it works by shifting the unicodes values to ...
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How relevant is UTF-7 when it comes to parsing emails?
I recently implemented incoming emails for an application and boy, did I open the gates of hell? Since then every other day an email arrives that makes the app fail in a different way.
One of those ...
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What is really happening when we change encoding in a string?
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php
Say I do:
$encoded = mb_convert_encoding ($original);
That looks like simple enough. WHat I am imagining is the following
$original has a ...
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URL Encryption vs. Encoding
At the moment non/semi sensitive information is sent from one page to another via GET on our web application. Such as user ID or page number requested etc. Sometimes slightly more sensitive ...
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What type of encoding can I use to make a string shorter?
I am interested in encoding a string I have and I am curious if there is a type of encoding that can be used that will only include alpha and numeric characters and would preferably shorten the number ...
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Why are there multiple Unicode encodings?
I thought Unicode was designed to get around the whole issue of having lots of different encoding due to a small address space (8 bits) in most of the prior attempts (ASCII, etc.).
Why then are there ...
