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Plex.app is the first to take advantage of Apple's H.264 hardware acceleration

Apple last week released a new Video Decode Acceleration Framework Reference for GPU acceleration of H.264 video files.  A week later, Plex has a hotfix for NVidia 9400M and newer chipsets which will allow the media player to decode 720P and 1080P videos with much less CPU utliization.  The code will be incorperated into newer builds soon.

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