Hardware circuits on a display adapter that speed up full-motion video. Built into modern display adapters, the primary video accelerator functions are color space conversion, which converts YUV to RGB; hardware scaling, which is used to enlarge the image to full screen and double buffering, which moves the frames into the frame buffer faster. See graphics accelerator and YUV.
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