Can a Celeron 1037U Play 1080p in Software?
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So I finally decided I want to get rid of my AMD hardware, I am sick of a multi-OS ecosystem and I want to go all Linux for HTPCs

As part of my upgrade strategy I want to make sure I have the power to play 1080p via CPU as a backup plan.

I want to go with a 1037U mobo, and by my math it should have enough CPU power to decode 1080p in software.

But my math has been wrong before so I have to ask- has anyone successfully decoded a Blu Ray-level 1080p file on a Celeron 1037U with GPU acceleration turned off?

Thank you in advance for any responses.

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#2
It depends entirely on the software decoder. Silverlight worked for the Celeron 847 but XBMC with DXVA turned off didn't.
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#3
Using multi frame threading in Gotham, XBMC can play bluray quality 1080p videos with no issues. However it couldn't still play 1080p60 HD camcorder videos even in that mode.
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#4
Thank you for the input. I think I will go with a 1155 celeron instead and have some overkill.

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#5
Hi my Biostar NM70I-1037U Ver. 6.x is playing back streams in XBMC and BDs under Windows in fullHD without a problem, but why do you want to turn the GPU accelerator off? I am runing a stock XBMCUbuntu, i dont know what drivers are runing in there.

Windows of course has Intel drivers installed.
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