E-350 1080p playback

[Rene82]

i have tryed firefox/IE and the last beta is pretty much the same.

Edit
drizek what version do you think about here?
i did try Flash Player 10.3.181.14 on IE

 

[Orillion]

What beta version of flash is the latest ?

 

[drizek]

I don't know. I guess we are up to 10.3 now. The major performance improvements came to 10.2. It used to be that hte version of flash shipped with chrome was not as fast as the 10.2 beta that you could use with firefox, but now they both perform about the same for me with 10.3. I guess it is still useful to try out different combinations though to see if it is a software/configuration problem. I think there is still al ot more room for optimization though.

 

[OS]

i tried the vid on my laptop, 2.0ghz turion x2/HD3200, 1080P but downsampled to 1366x768 monitor.

straight off youtube there are slowdowns, but if i download it as an MP4 it plays fine.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hmm. I just put together my Zacate E-350 system (ASrock E350M1), and installed 4GB of DDR3-1066, and installed Win7 64-bit, and installed the newest drivers off of Asrock.com, and that BF3 preview video played just fine full-screen.

Well, mostly. It was buffering like a b**ch, but it played back just fine. UNTIL, I double-clicked on it, to check the CPU usage, while it was buffering, and then when the video started again, this time it was unaccelerated, and the CPU went to 100%. Previously, it had hovered around 20% CPU time on both cores, for full-screen 1080P playback (1920x1200 monitor, attached by VGA).

So it looks like there are driver glitches still, but the hardware IS capable of smooth 1080P playback of flash videos.

Edit: It seems like I can't replicate this low CPU usage again. I tried watching the video in Firefox, and yes, it is around 5 FPS. Laggy, choppy, not very watchable. So I rebooted, tried IE8. Better, but still not 24FPS. I had to mess around with full-screen/windowed, and changing the resolution. I windowed, changed the resolution to 480P, full-screened, and then changed the res to 1080P. Then it played back smooth again. But when I went to check my Task Manager, it said that I was using 75-80% of the CPU. I dunno how I was using only 20% before, but perhaps that was because I was pausing and buffering all of the time.

Edit: Third time's the charm. This time, I closed all of my browsers, and opened Firefox 4.0.1, and opened a new tab with the video, and this time, I clicked full-screen FIRST, and then (after the ad had finished), I clicked on 1080P. And it played back smooth, and again it took like 20% CPU time on both cores. Sweet!

It should be noted that my first test was at 1920x1200, but the second two tests were with a monitor that is 1280x1024.

 

[moriz]

Is that about the HD decode true for my 8400M GS as well? It can do 1080p fine over HDMI, in fact, I do it just about every day.

All I know is that my old HP laptop with the same GPU can't do it.it can't even play a1080p video without stuttering.

 

[VirtualLarry]

i tried the vid on my laptop, 2.0ghz turion x2/HD3200, 1080P but downsampled to 1366x768 monitor.

straight off youtube there are slowdowns, but if i download it as an MP4 it plays fine.

I just tried that video again on my newer AMD laptop, it has an Athlon II P320 2.1Ghz dual-core, and an HD4250 graphics (880G mobile chipset, I think).

With multiple tabs open in FF 7.01 32-bit, and a streaming internet radio station in the background, I viewed the video.

It played back fine, except for the buffering. (YouTube via FIOS seems to buffer quite a lot.)
I could even click the full-screen button, and go back and forth between full-screen, windowed, full-screen, windowed, full-screen, and it didn't stop the hardware acceleration, unlike my Zacate rig.

Screen res on this laptop is also 1366x768.