Playing 1920x1200 Video Smoothly

[BDawg]

I recently upgraded my monitor to a 24" 1920x1200 monitor.

When I use ffdshow to upscale my videos to that resolution, they drop lots of frames. Below is my current setup. I'm planning to get a new computer in the not too distant future. Is there any one thing I could upgrade which would allow for smooth upscaling with my current system?

P4 2.4GHz
1GB RAM
Radeon x800XT AIW

 

[TheDrake]

Originally posted by: BDawg
I recently upgraded my monitor to a 24" 1920x1200 monitor.

When I use ffdshow to upscale my videos to that resolution, they drop lots of frames. Below is my current setup. I'm planning to get a new computer in the not too distant future. Is there any one thing I could upgrade which would allow for smooth upscaling with my current system?

P4 2.4GHz
1GB RAM
Radeon x800XT AIW

I had the exact same system except my P4 was overclocked to 3.4Ghz and 2gb of RAM and it was still dropping frams at 1920x1080. Only when I moved up to a Core 2 duo and 8800GTS did that solve the problem. I could have been doing something wrong, who knows. All I know is that with my new system I dont have that problem.

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: TheDrake

Originally posted by: BDawg
I recently upgraded my monitor to a 24" 1920x1200 monitor.

When I use ffdshow to upscale my videos to that resolution, they drop lots of frames. Below is my current setup. I'm planning to get a new computer in the not too distant future. Is there any one thing I could upgrade which would allow for smooth upscaling with my current system?

P4 2.4GHz
1GB RAM
Radeon x800XT AIW

I had the exact same system except my P4 was overclocked to 3.4Ghz and 2gb of RAM and it was still dropping frams at 1920x1080. Only when I moved up to a Core 2 duo and 8800GTS did that solve the problem. I could have been doing something wrong, who knows. All I know is that with my new system I dont have that problem.

That's depressing. I would've hoped the x800XT would be powerful enough to push the video itself.

 

[kylebisme]

Even far less of a videocard will push the video just fine. Your problem is your CPU, that is what ffdhow is using to do the upscaling.

 

[mhouck]

I have to agree with TheDrake in that you will need at least an 8800 or 3870 to run newer games at that resolution. Take a look at the charts on Toms Hardware 2007 VGA charts

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
Even far less of a videocard will push the video just fine. Your problem is your CPU, that is what ffdhow is using to do the upscaling.

QFT.

Of course upgrading his video card couldn't hurt either.

 

[Insomniator]

Originally posted by: mhouck
I have to agree with TheDrake in that you will need at least an 8800 or 3870 to run newer games at that resolution. Take a look at the charts on Toms Hardware 2007 VGA charts

did you read the topic?

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Like others said, the CPU is the limitation here. Upscaling to 1920 (horizontal) will hammer the crap out of older CPUs (even single-core Athlon64s). Try a lower resolution (1280 ought to be fine) or the other resizing algorithms (maybe fast bilinear would help?). Lanczos and Spline are a little harder on the CPU, I think.

 

[postmortemIA]

so is ffdshow fully done in software? no hardware acceleration?

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Yup, completely CPU-based unless there are builds with support for PureVideo/UVD that I'm not aware of. Read about some users working on experimental builds a long time ago but never seen them feature in any of the official builds.

 

[BassBomb]

ffdshow does ZERO hardware accelleration

And secondly, I do not think x800 has any decoding capabilities.

You will need a stronger CPU

 

[Auric]

The simplest and most elegant solution is to replace the monitor with a "TV" which sports a decent scaler.