Milestone is the first video management software (VMS) vendor in the world to introduce hardware accelerated video decoding using Intel’s built-in Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) component in the CPU and the Intel® Media SDK. Even for installations where hardware accelerated video decoding is not supported by the hardware, decoding using the Intel® Media SDK offers significant enhancements with improved rendering and smooth display of live and recorded video. By shifting the computing intensive video decoding process from the CPU to the GPU, the CPU load is drastically reduced.