No hardware video acceleration from ATI - ever?

[Melcar]

It's fenced off because it's in testing, and like anything relating to fglrx that is in testing it will remain closed off to the main public.

[tuxdriver]

The 1080p Africa video was removed from Apple's HD site

I've had it for quite a while, It looks much the same bitrate as the sahara one.

Here's the first 75 meg - http://www.andyqos.ukfsn.org/bbc-africa_m1080p-75.mov

By analyzing the page sources and merging the URL patterns I managed to find the direct link to the 'removed' BBC Africa Full HD clip:

http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl1800/1080p/bbc-africa_m1080p.mov

[pingufunkybeat]

I've tried the BBC Africa clip using pure software decoding, and mplayer takes 65% of one core to do it.

The Phenom II is simply ridiculous. I love it

[tuxdriver]

@PinguinFunkyBeat:

That video is not a good benchmark. It plays smoothly even on a slow-ass single core Athlon64.

Try this one instead: http://fs7.www.ex.ua/get/205576/Plan...80p_sample.mkv

and post your results

[pingufunkybeat]

Doesn't seem to work, I get 17 KBs.

[curaga]

Why are all the test vids so huge, it takes nearly an hour on my 2Mbps adsl (which is common here). edit: the host won't give me full speed either, getting 35kbps :P

Why not just clip the best-representing 10s and post that?

[amphigory]

eherr@saturn:~$ host fs7.www.ex.ua
fs7.www.ex.ua has address 77.120.115.137

inetnum: 77.120.115.56 - 77.120.115.255
netname: VOLIA-DC2
descr: for PA assigment
country: UA
admin-c: VDCA-RIPE
tech-c: VDCA-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: VOLIA-DC-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Volia DC Admin contact
address: Ukraine, Kiev
phone: +38 044 2852716
abuse-mailbox: [email protected]
nic-hdl: VDCA-RIPE
mnt-by: VOLIA-DC-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

'Nuff said.

[tuxdriver]

Why are all links for the the test vids so slow? The host won't give me full speed, getting about 35kbps :P

???

I'm getting an average download speed of 350 KB/sec with this file:

http://fs7.www.ex.ua/get/205576/Planet_Earth_From%20Pole_to_Pole_1080p_sample.mkv

Apple's servers are usually very fast (over 1 MB/sec), but sometimes they get overcrowded so the speed drops to 50 KB/s or lower.

[tuxdriver]

Doesn't seem to work, I get 17 KBs.

Here's a mirror:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/132004/Planet_Earth_From%20Pole_to_Pole_1080p_sample_16ref.mkv

Download is a bit slower from this one (~150 KB/sec)

[monraaf]

Why are all the test vids so huge, it takes nearly an hour on my 2Mbps adsl (which is common here). edit: the host won't give me full speed either, getting 35kbps :P

It's only a one minute video, and the download works fine here, 700 ~ 800 KB/sec, it took me about 3 minutes to download that file.

Mplayer however struggles playing this video with an Athlon X2 @ 2.8GHZ, I have yet to try mplayer-mt.