Watching Lady Gaga music video in HD

[tedzbear]

Question:
When I watch a Gaga music video from her official website it is offered in HD at 720P or 1080P. I can watch the 720P widescreen with no problem, but when I try and watch at 1080P I only get one frame per second. Is this because of my video card limitations, or my DSL limitations, or my LCD monitor limitations? The music always plays perfectly.
My video card: BFG GeForce 7300 GT 512 MB memory 8X AGP
My DSL: 5056 Kbps download
My LCD monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 242 MP (max resolution is 1920 x 1200 32-bit 60 HZ)
My sound card: Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Music Platinum Sound Card
My CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3000+
My chipset: nVidia nForce 2

Thanks for your input.

 

[Smartazz]

I doubt your single core Athlon XP is up to the task of playing a 1080p video, although one frame per second still sounds awfully low.

 

[zerocool84]

I doubt your single core Athlon XP is up to the task of playing a 1080p video, although one frame per second still sounds awfully low.

Cus he can't offload it to the GPU either. It's his whole system.

Also it has nothing to do with net connection as you can let it buffer long enough before hand to watch it fine.

 

[faxon]

yea your entire system is just to slow now. as has been already said your CPU is doing all the grunt work there, it's definitely not up to the task, and your GPU isnt doing any sort of acceleration on it either, which is only making the problem worse

 

[busydude]

As said, your system is pretty outdated. But, before you start to think about upgrading, I suggest you to wait until flash 10.1 releases, it may alleviate some of the problems you have with flash. You can even download the pre release candidate here.

 

[0roo0roo]

either your dsl or your cpu
gpu accel is um..patchy, unlikely, and non factor if your cpu can do it. even igp can output bluray if the cpu does the decode right. no gpu is so slow they cant just throw 24fps at the screen once the cpu has done the work. and yes, an xp 3000 is a dog slow processor.

 

[0roo0roo]

As said, your system is pretty outdated. But, before you start to think about upgrading, I suggest you to wait until flash 10.1 releases, it may alleviate some of the problems you have with flash. You can even download the pre release candidate here.

does his gpu even support acceleration?

anyways we are long past the point where its actually required on even low end new systems. under 100 bucks at frys gets u an x4+mb or 60bucks or so for an x2, all which can easily decode 1080p.

 

[busydude]

does his gpu even support acceleration?

I stand corrected, it does not. I just checked it in Nvidia's website. For some reason I thought flash 10.1 supports all nvidia GPU's from 6XXX series and I was wrong.

 

[Borealis7]

you should not watch Lady GaGa videos. its bad for your brain.

 

[Dark Shroud]

My understanding is that AGP is hardware limited against video acceleration.

 

[0roo0roo]

I stand corrected, it does not. I just checked it in Nvidia's website. For some reason I thought flash 10.1 supports all nvidia GPU's from 6XXX series and I was wrong.

heh i was just too lazy to check

but yea you gotta be from the last gen or two to have the coreavc or pure video level that actually did h264, earlier than that it was mpeg2

 

[Stefan Payne]

Get a new board with memory and a CPU.
Should be under 200$...

No need for a GPU, if you choose an AMD 785G or 880G basis...

 

[Scali]

My understanding is that AGP is hardware limited against video acceleration.

Nah. Even PCI cards already had some video acceleration back in the day. In theory it's not a limitation.
But try finding an AGP card that supports the MPEG4 acceleration required for 720p/1080i HD content... that's going to be a tough one. I don't think they exist.

 

[scooterlibby]

Question: Why admit you were watching a Lady Gaga video in your introductory post?

I mean, a lot us secretly do it, but you could have lied and said you were watching a streaming video of 'Breaking Bad' to build some cred.

 

[VirtualLarry]

My understanding is that AGP is hardware limited against video acceleration.

Nope, I installed an HD 2600 Pro AGP card into a friend's computer, and it plays back full-screen video just fine, on a P4.

 

[dpodblood]

Question: Why admit you were watching a Lady Gaga video in your introductory post?

I mean, a lot us secretly do it, but you could have lied and said you were watching a streaming video of 'Breaking Bad' to build some cred.

+1

Also I don't think its worth upgrading your rig to watch Lady Gaga videos, 720p should be fine.

 

[Patrick Wolf]

+1

Also I don't think its worth upgrading your rig to watch Lady Gaga videos, 720p should be fine.

This'd be a problem for all 1080p video. Like the apple movie trailers for example.

 

[tedzbear]

Thanks for the replies, but no thanks for the bagging of Gaga. :twisted:


Watch the video and you will see the error of your ways:
http://www.ladygaga.com/alejandro/video/
Check out her machine gun bra at the end.

Meanwhile I am saving up for a new rig next year so that I can watch Gaga in all of her wide screen 1080P glory. 720P is OK for now, considering I can remember the days of Dial Up internet and my Intel 486DX cpu. Ugh!

 

[edplayer]

I doubt your single core Athlon XP is up to the task of playing a 1080p video, although one frame per second still sounds awfully low.

my Athlon XP 2800+ can playback 1080p video and its even underclocked to 1953MHz (though the FSB is boosted to 217MHz)

 

[nenforcer]

I have the exact same setup.

Download the Avatar 1080P .MOV trailer and try watching it with Windows Media Player.

Then play it with Apple Quicktime and see how much smoother it plays.

Your video card supports PureVideo but not PureVideo HD. However, I don't think you are getting any hardware acceleration watching through YouTube.com or LadyGaga.com. What browser are you using? Try playing it through Google Chrome and see if that helps.

 

[T2k]

It's Lady Gaga, not your CPU/GPU - when you watch such junk music, your machine limits your resolution to prevent premanent brain damage...

 

[zagood]

Watch the video and you will see the error of your ways:
http://www.ladygaga.com/alejandro/video/
Check out her machine gun bra at the end.

That's a gigabyte of bandwidth I'll never get back.

 

[Concillian]

Question: Why admit you were watching a Lady Gaga video in your introductory post?

I mean, a lot us secretly do it

no, no we don't. We watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO7xWMi0lR8&feature=related instead.

Watch the drummer. THAT'S entertainment.

 

[Maximilian]

Be proud OP! Stand tall! Lady gaga is awesome, my i7 can do lady gaga HD videos with ease, you should buy an i7! Or at least something better than what you have like an i3 or an x4

 

[CraigRT]

My T5600 laptop with a couple gigs of RAM plays 1080P fine.. I think theres something screwy for it to be that bad over 720.

Either way, something a lil more modern would definitely help.