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    Hi,

    I am wondering what is the minimal cpu to play 1080p movies.
    is E5200 enough or should I go for E7400 ?
    Last edited by mirak63; 19 February 2009, 04:49 AM.

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    When you use vdpau with nvidia series 8 or 9 (best 512 mb vram) both cpus are fast enough.

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    • #3
      thanks, but at the begining, in case vdpau is not reliable or implemented I prefer know what I need to fallback.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by mirak63 View Post
        Hi,

        I am wondering what is the minimal cpu to play 1080p movies.
        is E5200 enough or should I go for E7400 ?
        With a decent video card. Single core Atom. 1 ghz amd athalon, 1.8 ghz celeron. Anything really.

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        • #5
          is it hard to read the topic subject ?

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          • #6
            For software only and 1080p then you should use least a cpu with 3 ghz. But if you are lucky you can oc the cpu to that level...

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            • #7
              mirak63, just to be clear do you mean no GPU decode acceleration, or no GPU render acceleration (Xv, OpenGL) as well ?

              Your wording implies the second case, ie outputting to x11 or something, is that correct ?
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              • #8
                I don't see where my wording implies renderer acceleration

                However I still can tell you I can't play a 1080p video with a q9300 and opengl acceleration, while with xv it's ok. (but there is tearing)
                Last edited by mirak63; 20 February 2009, 09:49 PM.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by mirak63 View Post
                  I don't see where my wording implies renderer acceleration
                  Oh good, that's what I thought too

                  Originally posted by mirak63 View Post
                  However I still can tell you I can't play a 1080p video with a q9300 and opengl acceleration, while with xv it's ok. (but there is tearing)
                  OpenGL will always have higher overhead than Xv for video playback; the GL output is just a useful short-term solution.

                  On the good news front, it looks like there is progress in standardizing sync-to-vblank in the framework; in this case in DRI2. Scroll down to "painflipping" :

                  http://virtuousgeek.org/blog/index.p..._wpageflipping
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by mirak63 View Post
                    is it hard to read the topic subject ?
                    NO but it's really hard to decode with a CPU. Which is why people generally don't do it.

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