Intel Atom N280 Details Surface

[Weer]

Then don't use MKV files, MKV is just a containter file.

What choice do we have? 95% of all video files these days come in MKV format.

 

[Wile E]

Not necessarily, while I had thought so for a while, most of the early dual core atom benchies came up with minimal performance gains, and a near 100% gain in power consumption of the chip. While it would help things, don't get me wrong, I don't think it's worth the price for the comparatively small performance gains you would get out of it.

A new chipset is certainly a step in the right direction, that was the weakness of the current Atom platform, but the speed bump is nice too, especially if it's got the same TDP.


Just have to wait for a Core 2 style architecture like the Conroe L Celerons.... even if it's not the full thing, the power per clock would be high enough to give the Atom a great performance boost.

The things I do would benefit from a dual core. The only reason I haven't bought a netbook yet is because the cpu is too weak.

Unless you know something i dont, there is no such software that works with MKV files.

Zoom Player and MPC Home Theatre can be configured to use gpu acceleration thru ffmpeg. You have to enable VMR9 as the video renderer, iirc. The Haali renderer may be able to do it as well. The standard overlay does not accelerate.

 

[Mussels]

Zoom Player and MPC Home Theatre can be configured to use gpu acceleration thru ffmpeg. You have to enable VMR9 as the video renderer, iirc. The Haali renderer may be able to do it as well. The standard overlay does not accelerate.

i am yet to see that working. feel free to PM me what version of FFMPEG works with this, and i'll happily test it.

 

[Weer]

Zoom Player and MPC Home Theatre can be configured to use gpu acceleration thru ffmpeg. You have to enable VMR9 as the video renderer, iirc. The Haali renderer may be able to do it as well. The standard overlay does not accelerate.

Okay, I enabled VMR9. Before: 15% CPU utilization. After: 15% CPU utlization.
Is there something else I have to do?

 

[newtekie1]

What choice do we have? 95% of all video files these days come in MKV format.

By "come" I assume you mean the ones you download illegally... Don't complain if you are getting it for free.

If you encode them yourself, like you should, and not stealing them, you can pick any container you want. All my 720p and 1080p rips from my Blu-Ray movies are in good ol' MP4 format.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

nt thats low

 

[Weer]

By "come" I assume you mean the ones you download illegally... Don't complain if you are getting it for free.

If you encode them yourself, like you should, and not stealing them, you can pick any container you want. All my 720p and 1080p rips from my Blu-Ray movies are in good ol' MP4 format.

Like I "should"? Who are you to tell people who download what they should or should not do? I, conversely, think you should download and not encode them yourself.

 

[Mussels]

where i am, its more legal to download a backup from the net than it is to rip the disks. Its breaking more laws to break the encryption, than it is to download a copy of a movie i already own.

Also, i download anime that *is* legal because its not licenced in english yet - i can hardly rip those myself even if i wanted to.

anyway this is going far off topic. short version is: hardware decoding works only under very specific circumstances, and that limits the usefulness of single core atom systems for HD media use.

 

[Wile E]

i am yet to see that working. feel free to PM me what version of FFMPEG works with this, and i'll happily test it.

I just did some testing, and I must have remembered that incorrectly. It doesn't seem to be working. I'm wondering if it was CoreAVC now.

At any rate, VLC does accelerate mkv with H.264. I just tested it with a 720P rip of GITS. 4% cpu usage. The option for hardware acceleration is right in the preferences. I've been using it more often, as it actually handles most subs properly now. There were only a couple I had problems with.

I'll be installing CoreAVC soon to see if it had acceleration.


EDIT: Upon further tinkering with CoreAVC, I have no idea how I managed gpu accelerated playback in Zoom before. lol. The only thing I can figure is maybe it was connecting to the Cyberlink filter. At any rate, VLC does work.

If you encode them yourself, like you should, and not stealing them, you can pick any container you want. All my 720p and 1080p rips from my Blu-Ray movies are in good ol' MP4 format.

I encode my stuff in MKV. MP4 doesn't have proper subtitle support (and by proper, I mean styled subs like Advanced Sub Station Alpha)

 

[Mussels]

VLC is good news. i'd love to use it, except it cant pass through digital audio like DTS.

damn, the one working player and i cant use it!

 

[Wile E]

VLC is good news. i'd love to use it, except it cant pass through digital audio like DTS.

damn, the one working player and i cant use it!

Are you sure? There's an S/PDIF output option.

 

[Mussels]

Are you sure? There's an S/PDIF output option.

it doesnt work, and hasnt for ages. google or check their forums, its full of people complaining that it hasnt worked for ages and you only get static/stuttering audio.

They just dont follow the standards properly, or something. I guess its low priority.