CoreAVC

CoreAVC was a <a href="/facts/Proprietary_software/9zcskxYL">proprietary</a> <a href="/facts/Codec/C7b7Am8t">codec</a> for decoding the <a href="/facts/H.264%2fMPEG-4_AVC/soCzKcmJ">H.264/MPEG-4 AVC</a> (Advanced Video Coding) video format.
In 2010, when CoreAVC was a software-only decoder, it was one of the fastest software decoders, but still slower than hardware-based ones. CoreAVC supports all H.264 Profiles except for 4:2:2 and 4:4:4.
From 2009, CoreAVC introduced support to two forms of <a href="/facts/GPU/PTK1RQVp">GPU</a> hardware acceleration for H.264 decoding on Windows: <a href="/facts/CUDA/fvPpolot">CUDA</a> (<a href="/facts/Nvidia/8QfCgqbu">Nvidia</a> only, in 2009) and <a href="/facts/DXVA/0rCKebDp">DXVA</a> (Nvidia and ATI GPUs, in 2011).
CoreAVC was included as a part of the CorePlayer Multimedia Framework and was being used in the now defunct desktop client by <a href="/facts/Joost/5ADKDAfq">Joost</a> a system that was distributing videos over the Internet using <a href="/facts/P2PTV/AbmzUzuf">peer-to-peer TV technology</a>.

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