2011-09-21, 05:47
voochi Wrote:If perfect 24p playback is not important, is the Nvidia GPU still necessary?
Does the G620 and IGP have enough grunt for either software or hardware decoding in Linux and/or Windows?
I know that technically they should (because I have been playing 1080p H264 for many years on lesser hardware) but is there some issue with drivers or the inefficiency of XBMC?
I have the g620T, lower profile, scaled back cpu, running the same HD2000 intel GPU, and I recommend using a nightly XBMC build compiled after August 20th, 2011. If you do that, you can turn on DXVA2, then 1080p plays easily. No dxva, high bitrate 1080p mkvs stuttered for me. This thread has a ton of details on using the intel graphics with XBMC, hence why the op suggested a separate nvidia card in his build. I personally don;t see the 24p bug, but dxva enabled made a huge difference when I switched from Dharma to the nightlies last month.