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Any Tablet (available or announced) able handle 1080P h.264 MKVs?

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Jagercola

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Any of the tablets out now or announced able to handle 1080P MKVs? After some research, I know the tegra 2 processor cannot handle 1080P h.264 high profile.

Thanks
 
Jagercola said:
Any of the tablets out now or announced able to handle 1080P MKVs? After some research, I know the tegra 2 processor cannot handle 1080P h.264 high profile.

Thanks
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Not sure about the mkv container, but the Tegra 2 can handle 1080p video pretty easily. I suspect most of the dual core ARM chips, OMAP4, the 3rd Gen Snapdragons, Tegras, will be able to do quite a few 1080p video. Depends on the container and encode method.

There's a great many videos on Youtube of the Viewsonic GTablet doing 1080P. Flash 10.1 and 10.2 have a lot of optimizations for ARM, so quite a few of the newer ARM chips can do it. Heck, the Adreno 205 has hardware Flash decode, and I think the SGX540 does as well.

There's also some videos of the Hummingbird variants doing 720p smoothly, with some stuttering on 1080P, for what thats worth.
 
I'm particularly looking for 1080P h.264 High Profile 4.1 DXVA support as that is what I've encoded my home movies and recorded TV shows in and I don't want to re-encode them again. I'll probably just have to wait to reviews come out as I think a lot of tablets are quiet about which processor they are using and which video formats are supported.
 
Well the OMAP 4 in the PlayBook is listed as having:


  • Full HD 1080p30 multi-standard video encode/decode
  • Hardwired codecs deliver high performance at low power levels
  • Programmable DSP provides flexibility for future codecs VTC 1080p30
  • Provides support for high definition stereoscopic 3D encode/decode (OMAP4430: 720p, OMAP4440: 1080p)
 
DivideBYZero said:
Well the OMAP 4 in the PlayBook is listed as having:


  • Full HD 1080p30 multi-standard video encode/decode
  • Hardwired codecs deliver high performance at low power levels
  • Programmable DSP provides flexibility for future codecs VTC 1080p30
  • Provides support for high definition stereoscopic 3D encode/decode (OMAP4430: 720p, OMAP4440: 1080p)
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Looks promising, thanks. Hope they come out with a 10" version in addition to the 7"
 
doesnt 1080p video defeat the purpose when the screen your viewing it on is only 1024 x 600 screen resolution and 7"?
maybe someone can fill me on on how the math works
 
System_Mechanic said:
doesnt 1080p video defeat the purpose when the screen your viewing it on is only 1024 x 600 screen resolution and 7"?
maybe someone can fill me on on how the math works
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He said it in another post. He ripped and encoded all of his movies, and he doesn't want to transcode to play on a portable device. Sounds reasonable to me that he's looking for something to play the files he already has.
 
Also, if the tablet has a HDMI out on it, it means I can take the tablet and hook to an HDTV to show off family video clips, etc...
 
oh i see. would be smaller files if he transcoded tthough? i' don't think the playbook has hdmi out but i'maybe wrong. definitly get one with a large HD
 
He specifically asked for 1080P H264 High Profile MKV. Don't ignore the container format, OP doesn't want to convert/transcode.

RockPlayerBase can probably do it - it supports H264, high profile, 1080p, and the MKV container - but the review I read didn't test those specific conditions together (closest was 1080p mk4, main profile). But I can't recommend an Android device that I know can do all of that. If there's a (legal) sample someone can point me to, I will try it on the Evo and Nook Color, though.
 
Looks like the Ipad 2 can't do it. 720P 3.1 profile h.264 is the max. Crossing my fingers for the playbook... Else it's just the HP DM1Z netbook which does 1080P with DTSHD and TRUEHD HDMI bitstreaming.
 
For whatever its worth the xoom will not play 720p mkv, whereas my galaxy s will. I think a galaxy tab might do what you want but nvidias next tegra (?) will for sure. Hardware decode of h.264 hi profile is listed as a feature of kal-el.

Shame really as this xoom is growing on me (just for the tablet use model) but I have a very difficult time accepting that this thing won't do something my 7 month old phone will.


Viper GTS
 
They are saying the playbook launches on the 27th, so hopefully we will find out then if it does 1080P h.264 high profile.

Upon more reflection, I love FFDSHOW and MPC-Home Cinema. That combo almost makes me want to wait for a windows tablet.
 
My ipad 2 can play 1080p high profile easily with sub player. All I have to do is take the mkv and run it through the sub player app for windows or mac so it can take advantage of hardware acceleration. It takes 30 secs for the app to run the mkv and then I move the file to the ipad. I am using this for hard subbed anime and it works flawlessly.
 
Viper GTS said:
For whatever its worth the xoom will not play 720p mkv, whereas my galaxy s will. I think a galaxy tab might do what you want but nvidias next tegra (?) will for sure. Hardware decode of h.264 hi profile is listed as a feature of kal-el.

Shame really as this xoom is growing on me (just for the tablet use model) but I have a very difficult time accepting that this thing won't do something my 7 month old phone will.


Viper GTS
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have you tried rockplayer?
 
MSI's WindPad 110W that they showed off a couple of weeks ago is powered by one of AMD's dual core APUs so it should have no problem with HD video playback. Sadly I haven't sen a release date for it yet.
 
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