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Posted on 03-04-08 05:47:54 AM Link | Quote
I have a Sempron2800 with a Geforce 6600GT video card and 1GB of RAM. Do I need better hardware to play HD Video files? If I can solve the solution with software, what software would I need? One HD video I want to watch has a bitrate of about 10,000kbps and a pixel aspect ratio of 16:9.

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Posted on 03-04-08 01:37:08 PM Link | Quote
Well, you could try playing it, first. Anyway, I don't see why not. I've played HD movies on a Athlon 2500 with a geforce 5200 256MB and it was only choppy if there was a lot of action. If WMP or Winamp(ugh, great music player but LOUSY when it comes to video) are giving you trouble, try mplayer (what I used) or VLC. Funny how the open source video players tend to perform better, huh?
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Posted on 03-04-08 01:45:34 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by paulguy
If WMP or Winamp (ugh, great music player but LOUSY when it comes to video) are giving you trouble, try mplayer (what I used) or VLC. Funny how the open source video players tend to perform better, huh?

Winamp wasn't originally made for video (just audio), so...

Also, while they may be a bit better at performance, VLC likes to give me a lot of weird errors. For some videos I make, it never updates the display, and sometimes doesn't display anything at all until I reboot.

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Posted on 03-04-08 06:10:00 PM (last edited by Shion at 03-04-08 03:11 PM) Link | Quote
As far as I've heard...you need significantly better than that.

We're talking Core 2 Duo or high-end X2 processor and a vid card far greater than a 6600GT...probably an 8600GT.

This is, of course, stuff I've heard...I've not really had the care to try something in HD mostly because even my new comp doesn't have those specs.

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Posted on 03-04-08 10:01:52 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Shion
As far as I've heard...you need significantly better than that. We're talking Core 2 Duo or high-end X2 processor and a vid card far greater than a 6600GT...probably an 8600GT.

Maybe not quite that high. I can play 1080p HD video just fine on my computer. I do have an Intel Dual Core, but a lower end 6400. It will play fine ever if it isn't overclocked. And my video card is a Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS.
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Posted on 03-04-08 10:04:44 PM Link | Quote
Maybe I read it for Blu-Ray...but I swore you had to have some higher-up stats like that...

...well maybe my 1.8GHz dual-core with a Radeon X1550 is enough...

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Posted on 03-04-08 10:54:02 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Shion
We're talking Core 2 Duo or high-end X2 processor and a vid card far greater than a 6600GT...probably an 8600GT.


This pretty much describes my computer. Maybe I should give this a run and see if it works.

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I play HD video whenever I feel like it, and I have 1 GB RAM, Radeon X550, Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Socket 939, and Windows XP X64 Pro.

It's not really all that hard to play, you just need a half-decent (read: modern) CPU and any video card from the last 3-4 years (5-7 if you're speaking of a formerly top end one).

So, yeah. It's not as difficult as some people here might say.

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Posted on 03-05-08 05:41:29 AM Link | Quote
The video file plays much slower than the audio using Windows Media Player and VLC plays the video very choppy. I guess I'll just have to wait for starcraft 2 to come out before I get a system that will play HD video without trouble. (I'm planning to buy a new computer when SC2 is released since my current desktop specs have no shot at playing that game)
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Posted on 03-05-08 07:06:48 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by neotransotaku
The video file plays much slower than the audio using Windows Media Player and VLC plays the video very choppy. I guess I'll just have to wait for starcraft 2 to come out before I get a system that will play HD video without trouble. (I'm planning to buy a new computer when SC2 is released since my current desktop specs have no shot at playing that game)


And when's that supposedly? October?

I've already got the overkill quality trailers on my comp for that game. All I can say is 'drool'.

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Posted on 03-05-08 12:45:34 PM Link | Quote
Wait, what does the video card have much to do with it? As long as it has some kind of hardware scaling (pretty much any video card from the past 10 years) it should work just fine. A super high end geforce isn't going to make any difference for something that depends entirely on the CPU.
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Posted on 03-06-08 05:57:23 AM Link | Quote

Actually, newer video cards DO have hardware acceleration for HD video, though from what I've heard, it's actually better on some lower-end cards (more die space available for the decoder or something?).

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