[image] Wyze app 3.3 Beta Test #2 1/6/2025 Beta Hail Mary pray Can someone please backend restore the little toggle guy for Hardware Decoder (GPU) in Android app? The lack of it is bogging up practical app use in an ‘it’s always something’ kinda way for person…

Sort of the opposite of pretty much everything else then, where typically using the CPU vs dedicated chip is a bad thing. I don’t really keep up to date on phone tech, so that’s news to me. Counterintuitive.

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I like the title you gave that. :grin:

Yeah, it’s actually common to refer to it this way in the industry (Hardware/GPU+ vs Software/CPU encoding). Heavy encoding needs do tend to lean more toward Hardware encoding lately. Even on mobile, a lot of SoC architecture are integrating Media Engines and DSP’s to encode tasks without draining t…

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Agreed, very similar to my thoughts. I also didn’t notice it was gone. I am curious if it was intentional or inadvertent. I know they aggregate stats on how often something is used or not, so I wonder if they found it’s rarely used anymore. Personally I think this is partially because nobody even kn…

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Appears the hardware decoder option has been re-added, but now it is under individual cams “advanced settings”.

Hardware Decoder Option Removed (affects low-mid range devices especially)

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Hardware Decoder Option Removed (affects low-mid range devices especially)

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