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- Haggy - 2009-07-15
dr.Evol Wrote:I've installed the Win7 on the internal HDD and tested some 1080p movies with windows media player using ffdshow codec - the movies ran perfectly.
I find this exceptionally hard to believe since my AMD x2 4850 struggles with 1080p movies decoded solely in software. How could an Atom handle this perfectly?
Anyway. Make sure you enable VDPAU acceleration the video settings menu.
- vikjon0 - 2009-07-15
An idea would be to test to move a movie to the linux file system.
But that probably isnt.
If you click o on the keyboard, does it say that you run with VDPAU?
Maybe you need to upgrade the nvidia drivers.
Anyway, 1080 works fine if installed correctly
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=54705
BTW, mkv does play on windows media center, depending on the installed codec.
- dr.Evol - 2009-07-16
Hi, thanks for your replies!
@Haggy: Because I use HW decoding on windows (win media player, not xbmc!) CPU load is at max 15% belive it or not
I was watching Wodie Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona 1080p. The picture quality was amazing. It was a bit different in xbmc.. looks that different codecs works differently.
@vikjon0: Cant copy the file on the linux filesystem since I put the entire disk into win partition..doh... and the usb stick is only 4GB.
Hiting the O key:
dc:ff-h264_vdpau, cpu 1%,bitrate cca 18Mbps
Cpu0=9%,cpu1=4%,cpu2=1%,cpu3=2% - hmmm? Isnt the Atom 330 dual core? Does it mean the single core atom has 2 cores?
The video struggeling is realy unoticable in fast moving scenes but in slow motion (say slow scan over the landscape) you can notice how the video stops a little just like skipping a frame.. that happens few times per second..
Maybe I should upgrade the drivers as you suggest...
- dr.Evol - 2009-07-16
Vikjon0.. about the media center.. do you know which codecs work? I tried ffdshow and it works in win media player classic only, not in WMC.
Avaiting xbmc for win with Cuda decoding anyway...
Btw - anyone tried running the xbmc live in VMWare on win host?
- >>X<< - 2009-07-16
dr.Evol Wrote:hmmm? Isnt the Atom 330 dual core? Does it mean the single core atom has 2 cores?
Yes its dual core but its also hyperthreaded which is why you see 4
- kurai - 2009-07-16
dr.Evol Wrote:Cpu0=9%,cpu1=4%,cpu2=1%,cpu3=2% - hmmm? Isnt the Atom 330 dual core? Does it mean the single core atom has 2 cores?The Atoms have hyperthreading, so each `real` core gets reported as 2 `virtual` cores.
dr.Evol Wrote:Btw - anyone tried running the xbmc live in VMWare on win host?Umm ... very little point in that as you won't have access to GPU acceleration. If you have enough CPU horsepower for it to be workable under VMware then it would be (obviously) enough to play stuff natively on CPU alone.
Black Crush ?!? - Kryspy - 2009-07-16
ANyone experiencing black crush on the ION 330
Using a cheap THX setup disc (Toy Story) I cannot set the brightness levels without washing out the screen.
Kryspy
- dr.Evol - 2009-07-16
kurai Wrote:The Atoms have hyperthreading, so each `real` core gets reported as 2 `virtual` cores.
Umm ... very little point in that as you won't have access to GPU acceleration. If you have enough CPU horsepower for it to be workable under VMware then it would be (obviously) enough to play stuff natively on CPU alone.
I'm not so sure that I wouldn't have GPU acceleration. I'm not an expert in virtualization but as far as I know virtualization takes place below the host OS, so it's not using win subsystem in this case...
It has no practical benefit anyway but Im just curious... maybe I'll try that..
- Haggy - 2009-07-16
dr.Evol Wrote:@Haggy: Because I use HW decoding on windows (win media player, not xbmc!) CPU load is at max 15% belive it or not
Ah, that clears things up, thanks!
- solamnic - 2009-07-16
Btw which looks better...(i mean the display quality of the videos)..
Media player (with HW accelaration in XP) or XBMC in Linux??
- Haggy - 2009-07-16
I don't use windows, and honestly: i don't care
- jamie1984 - 2009-07-16
not sure if it's been posted but I ordered mine from here, they've just dropped the price again on the white model...
http://www.overclock.co.uk/product/ASRock-Nettop-Ion-330-System-White-Intel-Atom-330-NVIDIA-VGA-2GB-RAM-320-GB-HDD-DVD%C2%B1RW-%5BNo-Operating--System%5D_5048.html
- >>X<< - 2009-07-16
jamie1984 Wrote:not sure if it's been posted but I ordered mine from here, they've just dropped the price again on the white model...
http://www.overclock.co.uk/product/ASRock-Nettop-Ion-330-System-White-Intel-Atom-330-NVIDIA-VGA-2GB-RAM-320-GB-HDD-DVD%C2%B1RW-%5BNo-Operating--System%5D_5048.html
There pretty much that price everywhere now some a bit cheaper
http://www.it-bits.com/product/IB_ASR-NET-TOPION330-BL.htm
Had another link somewhere for £218 but seem to have misplaced it
- stogiesam88 - 2009-07-16
Does anyone know if it's possible to squeeze another 2.5" hdd in the asrock case?
- DarthV - 2009-07-16
If you pulled the optical drive, probably.