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Twin-Engined 5KPlayer 4.9 Supports Wider Hardware Acceleration Modes on Windows 10
[February 09, 2018]

Twin-Engined 5KPlayer 4.9 Supports Wider Hardware Acceleration Modes on Windows 10


The following is a news release from DearMob:

DearMob's free twin-engined 5KPlayer 4.9 for Windows, catching up with the speedy pace of H.264 4K 8K video growing trends, forges itself as a power-efficient multimedia player that supports all DXVA2, Intel QSV, NVIDIA (News - Alert)(CUDA) H/W acceleration modes at one go. In this version, three hardware acceleration modes are utilized to accelerate high-res video decoding, conversion and AirPlay (News - Alert) process to the utmost extent.

Dedicated for high-res video decoding, especially the H.264 encoded files, 5KPlayer 4.9 for Windows fortifies its killer feature - hardware acceleration - to boost GPU video-decoding efficiency and adds up 2 more H/W acceleration modes from its original DXVA2 mode to support QSV and NVIDIA H/W decoding altogether. Different from software decoding, in such wise, users' CPU will be greatly relived from graphics-related tasks to ensure proficient 4K/8K 60 fps video processing workload and even HDR (News - Alert) videos, 4K Blu-ray movies.

This bi move gives Windows users every reason to believe that 5KPlayer's performance has been dramatically enhanced not only in dealing with h264 8K video playback tasks, but YouTube (News - Alert) to MP3 3GP conversion and AirPlay mirroring.



For high-res video playback and AirPlay mirroring, 5KPlayer's hardware decoding divides the processing burden from the CPU to the GPU. It activates graphic processing unit to precisely decode video files instead of using CPU in general. For YouTube video audio conversion, hardware decoding and encoding shortens the whole conversion time by half to dish out target MP3/M4A/WebM/3GP video audios.

5KPlayer utilizes hardware acceleration to skillfully handle graphic loads, especially when users are about to playback large files like H.264 8K 10bit videos of 60fps yet the CPU is heavily occupied already. Wishing for hassle-free and glitches-free FUHD visuals? 5KPlayer holds the key.


Freeware Availability:

5KPlayer is totally free and clean. Now the Version 4.9 for Windows and Mac are available for download at https://www.5kplayer.com/

About DearMob, Inc

DearMob Inc is a vigorous software company with forefront developing outlook which keeps pushing itself in developing new products and revamping the capability of its free 5KPlayer. With a foothold in the mobile solutions in 2017, Dear Mob, Inc is ready to enable more dynamic growth with compact and competitive products to Mac/Windows/ios/Android (News - Alert) users in 2018. For more information about DearMob, feel free to visit https://www.5kplayer.com/.


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