What is HW and SW in Mxplayer?
- The full form of HW is Hardware decoding.
- And the full form of SW is Software decoding.
HW vs SW:.
- Manufacturers install multimedia chipsets to assist video decoding process specifically, so the H/W decoder is using these chipsets to play videos.
- If you have a powerful device the hardware acceleration would be more helpful because it can allow playback of media when software decoding is too slow or laggy.