Oct 07, 2019 final cut pro x, motion 5, and compressor 4 require a graphics card that supports metal, an apple technology that lets the system and apps efficiently tap into the capabilities of todays graphics processors gpus. Graphics card compatibility for final cut pro x, motion 5. Before going to implement the feature, we will first discuss how the silverlight oob application works. Even though the use hardware acceleration checkbox is checked, i feel like its not working since im having 80% or higher cpu usage. Silverlight high cpu usage, not using hardware acceleration. Silverlight 5s multiple window implementation seems to work as expected as long as you stick to the defaults standard chrome borders, no gpu acceleration and you only open a few windows. Adobe flash 10 delivers gpu acceleration the tech report. Unfortunately gpu acceleration will not help you in this case at all, because there is not something which can be cached.
See complete requirements below for html5, silverlight 4, and silverlight 5. Gpu hardware acceleration optin feature per element codecs h. Silverlight 5, announced at the silverlight firestarter this past thursday, introduces many new features including several that focus on premium media experiences and business application development. Use an external graphics processor with your mac apple. In my previous screencast, i showed you the benefits of gpu acceleration in silverlight 3 and how to make use of it, as well of an instance where enabling gpu acceleration will harm performance in this screencast, i will show you that in certain scenarios even though you have enabled gpu acceleration, silverlight will revert to the cpu specifically we cover rendertransforms, pixel shader. How to install a silverlight outofbrowser application xap. Any way to programmatically disable hardware accelerated h. Netflix using silverlight forces the discrete gpu on the. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. Final cut pro x, motion 5, and compressor 4 require a graphics card that supports metal, an apple technology that lets the system and apps efficiently tap into the capabilities of todays graphics processors gpus. Use the xna api to gain lowlevel access to the gpu and draw vertex. Silverlight 5s new and improved threading architecture.
Microsoft offers silverlight for windows, mac os x, and linux, and it. Silverlight installation is fast and effortless for customers on both mac os, linux and windows platforms today. Apr 22, 2010 how silverlight outofbrowser application works. Trickplay allows video to be played at different speeds and supports fastforward and rewind. Unlike silverlight for windows phone, silverlight 5 doesnt support gpu autocaching, so you must be explicit about telling the runtime which parts of the visual tree to compose on the gpu. Sometimes it is feasible to use different gpu acceleration settings from the main mac model. Mar 23, 2011 ready to take your visuals to another dimension. Fixes datetime calculations to handle new eras in the japanese calendar.
One of the biggest challenges has been performance for constrained devices. Activate amd hardware acceleration macrumors forums. This only started happening when silverlight 5 was. Mar 17, 2020 with apple equipping all its recent macs with thunderbolt 3 ports, using an external gpu or egpu is a very convenient way to boost graphics performance. Disable hardware acceleration to fix graphics glitches and. When you install silverlight plugin, it also installs a. Immediate mode graphics api allows direct rendering to the gpu. Silverlight 5 now depends more on gpu for graphics processing.
Graphics processing unit gpu accelerated 3d application programming interface api provides rich graphics on the web for building advanced data visualizations and rich user experience ui. Reducing or disabling hardware acceleration can become necessary if a computer is running very slowly. Silverlight 5 gives you a direct path to the gpu with a powerful immediate mode 3d graphics api. No amount of fiddling with the safari 7 plugins security settings will allow the site to work. If youre editing 4k video, using 3d titles, or editing 360. Gpu acceleration, desktop tools, and support for higherquality audio and video. An egpu can give your mac additional graphics performance for professional apps, 3d gaming, vr content creation, and more. Netflix system requirements for html5 player and silverlight.
Silverlight 3 beta gpu acceleration mtaulty channel 9. Jul 30, 2018 to enable egpu acceleration in macos mojave dev beta 5, select the app via finder and go to file get info, and then check the prefer external gpu checkbox. Because silverlight already supports gpu acceleration a feature that is coming to future versions of flash player 10, battery life and overall performance has the potential to be quite strong. So, ive just been attending mix09 keynote scottgu, etc. If that doesnt suit you, our users have ranked 29 alternatives to gpuz and three of them are available for mac so hopefully. This installs silverlight version 5 with its 64bit component. Silverlight 5 has undergone few changes in the graphics stack. Does anyone know of a programmatic way of disabling the hardware acceleration. May 03, 2019 sometimes it is feasible to use different gpu acceleration settings from the main mac model. Silverlight 5 extends features of the trusted application model to the browser for the first time.
Its not free, so if youre looking for a free alternative, you could try the opengl hardware capability viewer. It is compatible across multiple browsers, devices and operating systems to bring a new level of interactivity wherever. Im almost positive that my fans didnt used to go this crazy when using netflix, and that it is a recent problem. Silverlight 5 adds significant new features and capabilities, and enables.
Performance has been improved dramatically by using lessons learned from windows phone 7. A powerful new approach to computing was born now, the paths of high performance computing and ai innovation are converging from the worlds largest supercomputers to the vast datacenters that power the cloud, this new computing model is helping to. One point which deserves mention here is that flash and silverlight acceleration works. The main difference resides in the developer experience. Amds system monitor shows how the cpu and gpu resources are balanced when playing h. May 03, 2019 another short video which playback 5 different hevc h264 video in fcp timeline simultaneously. It appears that the bing maps silverlight control works slow on lowspec computers and mac. Silverlight is a crossbrowser, crossplatform mac os, windows and linux and crossdevice browser plugin that helps companies design, develop and deliver applications and experiences on the web. Installed as a free browser plugin approximately 4mb in size, in less than 10 seconds, silverlight enables a new class of rich, safe, secure and. If i am correct than 3d will not work for mac so it will not be cross platform feature. Apr 29, 2009 in this screencast we take a look at how we can make use of gpu acceleration for video and bitmap scaling in silverlight 3. Oh well, maybe silverlight just sucks and my computer is just doing its best. Net, silverlight, windows azure, and other ramblings from.
Netflix using silverlight forces the discrete gpu on the mbpr. Microsoft silverlight is a free webbrowser plugin that enables interactive media experiences, rich business applications and immersive mobile apps. With apple equipping all its recent macs with thunderbolt 3 ports, using an external gpu or egpu is a very convenient way to boost graphics performance. Net and includes over 100 controls, rich layout and styling, a powerful networking stack, data access, support for hd video, and much, much more. Oct 15, 2008 adobe flash 10 delivers gpu acceleration. Thats because the gpu have to record the screen as well. Netflix using silverlight forces the discrete gpu on the mbpr resulting in higher power draw and heat submitted 5 years ago by ijeff its a shame that there isnt a way to either disable the discrete gpu, or avoid the use of silverlight when using netflix. Lets see the silverlight team rock something like that out. Operating system microsoft windows, macos, and symbian os. Your thunderbolt 3equipped mac running macos high sierra 10. More than 600 applications support cuda today, including the top 15 in hpc. Silverlight acceleration in xendesktop via vdga nvidia. How to turn off hardware acceleration with pictures.
Any feedback on proper acceleration of a silverlight application would be appreciated. I did the test for much longer, but just record few minutes to shows how i did that. This release included hardware video decoding acceleration for h. Silverlight for mac download free 2020 latest version.
Acceleration for flash and silverlight amds trinity. Silverlight 5 hardware acceleration stack overflow. View these screencasts in conjunction with the ones up at silverlight. Silverlight 3, however, can take advantage of hardware gpus. There is a clearly defined set of transforms and optimizations developers can make to leverage the gpu on the phone through silverlight. Net developer tools, visual studio 2008, visual studio 2010 and visual web developer express support a fully editable and interactive designer for silverlight.
In silverlight 1 and 2, all rendering was done in software, which meant that the performance of complex animations and video playback depended heavily on the capabilities of the host pc. Silverlight 5 extends features of the trusted application model. We are getting reports from our mac users that some of their video is playing back garbled. New features included gpuaccelerated video decoding, 3d graphics. By default mac 27adbb7b4cee8e61 imac14,2 will be used, but you can override this via shikiid. In this screencast, i will show you that in certain scenarios even though you have enabled gpu acceleration, silverlight will revert to the cpu. To run it outofbrowser with gpu hardware acceleration you have to explicitly specify the settings in your deployment xaml file like given below. Microsoft intros nextgen rich internet application ria solution. This talk provides an overview of the new features and. As the screenshot below indicates, we have full gpu acceleration for both decoding and rendering.
Unrestrict silverlight using safari plugin manager on mac. Fixes an issue where certain buffered web requests can cause a crash of the silverlight plugin on mac os x. Hardware acceleration is enabled in windowless mode with internet explorer 9. By continuing to browse this site, you agree to this use. Silverlight 5 gives you a direct path to the gpu with a powerful. Accelerated computing is the way forward for the worlds most powerful computers. Dec 06, 2010 the graphics advances that internet explorer 9 brings to the table by harnessing the power of the gpu will be leveraged by the next versions of both silverlight and flash. Apparently in one of the recent updates, thunderbird turned hardware acceleration on, when for my system, it needed to be off. Microsoft has released silverlight 5, reigniting speculation about the future. This site uses cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads. Microsoft silverlight is a free and programmable web browser plugin, which enables interactive media features such as animation, audiovideo playback and vector graphics, so you can experience rich and vibrant internet. Is there any way to check if hardware acceleration is actually being used. Using gpu on silverlight 5 for generalpurpose math. Mar 29, 2009 another new and notable feature of silverlight 3 is support for hardware acceleration.
Nov 27, 2009 because silverlight already supports gpu acceleration a feature that is coming to future versions of flash player 10, battery life and overall performance has the potential to be quite strong. We have found that disabling the hardware acceleration through the silverlight preferences solves the problem. Gpuz is not available for mac but there are a few alternatives that runs on macos with similar functionality. Microsoft silverlight or simply silverlight is a deprecated application framework for writing and. Another new and notable feature of silverlight 3 is support for hardware acceleration.
This is more for stability test, not performance test. Microsofts silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for web, desktop and mobile applications when online or offline the application is a free webbrowser plugin powered by the microsofts. In my previous screencast, i showed you the benefits of gpu acceleration in silverlight 3 and how to make use of it, as well of an instance where enabling gpu acceleration will harm performance. Prepare for silverlight 5 end of support after october 2021.
When the spring animation is turned on, radmap performs calculation of the screen coordinates for the polygons and figures several times for 1 zoom level. While the addition of a composition thread doesnt lend itself to eyecatching demos as the 3d graphics api does, there is a simple way to see the. Silverlight 3 is compatible only with intelbased macs, and offers better performance, gpu acceleration, desktop tools, and support for higherquality audio and video. In firefox, set preferences to use software acceleration for graphics i. Directly editing the registry allowed the box to remain checked but made no difference in behavior. Ie9 hardware acceleration embraced by silverlight 5 and. Gpu acceleration and optimizations by arm, intel and our oem partners have enabled us to create a better player, one that uses less ram, less battery and renders faster on constrained devices. Silverlight 5, announced at the silverlight firestarter this past thursday, introduces many new features including several that focus on premium media experiences and business application development you can watch scott guthries keynote here if you missed it, or if you want to see it again in addition to this quick list of features we disclosed for silverlight 5, im working on some. I always hear people complain about flash and silverlight together as being cpu hogs, but flash plays really well on my computer. May 21, 2018 gpuz is not available for mac but there are a few alternatives that runs on macos with similar functionality. I can watch youtube for hours without triggering my fans, but 5 mins in netflix will make them go crazy. Ie9 hardware acceleration embraced by silverlight 5 and flash.
With the new raw av pipeline, silverlight can easily support a wide variety of thirdparty codecs. Get silverlight 5 silverlight is a powerful development tool for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for web and mobile applications. Sep 06, 2011 immediate mode graphics api allows direct rendering to the gpu. A couple weeks ago, thunderbird updated itself, and my email life went to hell.
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