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<blockquote data-quote="gxtracker" data-source="post: 144770" data-attributes="member: 14004">because many elements of the current interface require it.The interface itself uses a psudo-3d engine that gives us the zooming, rotating, transparency effects - things that are offloaded from the CPU and already put into place in GPU hardware. Transparency is a huge CPU hog, and using the GPU to perform the calculations saves a lot of processing power.MP also uses VMR9 renedering for displaying video. VMR9 will allow the rendering of video footage onto a 3D plane as well as enable hardware features like bilinear and trilinear filtering by default for better picture quality. When you use MP's aspect functions when watching a video, MP is actually manipulating a 3D plane to display the desired aspect ratio.One thing I would really like to see for the future of MP is a completly 3D interface, with buttons and text that exist entirely in a 3D world. Panning, zooming, rotations, etc... would all be smooth and seamless. With the 3D foundation already in place, its just a natural progression for us to implement this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gxtracker, post: 144770, member: 14004"] because many elements of the current interface require it. The interface itself uses a psudo-3d engine that gives us the zooming, rotating, transparency effects - things that are offloaded from the CPU and already put into place in GPU hardware. Transparency is a huge CPU hog, and using the GPU to perform the calculations saves a lot of processing power. MP also uses VMR9 renedering for displaying video. VMR9 will allow the rendering of video footage onto a 3D plane as well as enable hardware features like bilinear and trilinear filtering by default for better picture quality. When you use MP's aspect functions when watching a video, MP is actually manipulating a 3D plane to display the desired aspect ratio. One thing I would really like to see for the future of MP is a completly 3D interface, with buttons and text that exist entirely in a 3D world. Panning, zooming, rotations, etc... would all be smooth and seamless. With the 3D foundation already in place, its just a natural progression for us to implement this. [/QUOTE]

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