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1080p requirements1080p requirementsPosted Oct 22, 2012 5:11 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: The Boxee Box: too free to live? by arekm Parent article: The Boxee Box: too free to live?
Actually I found, after buying a Canon compact that shoots HD, that even my few-years old Pentium D@3.4Ghz, (video: Radeon 9200) was not able to smoothly play 1080p with common F/OSS players. So I took to shooting 720p, which looks about as good, at least when shot by that not-so-high-end camera, and the files are smaller. I wonder where the problem was. Nonoptimal codecs? Display? How much does modern 1080p playing rely on the video card smarts?
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1080p requirements Posted Oct 22, 2012 10:18 UTC (Mon) by etienne (subscriber, #25256) [Link]
It is not the 1080p that you should look at but the "Overall bit rate : 12.8 Mbps/s".
Depending on compression, you can have a wide range of bit rates for the same definition, I have an old/cheap camcorder which does 25 Mbps/s at 1080p in its maximum setting (at 60 images/seconds). Not a lot of PC can play 25 Mbps/s (whatever the OS), even set-top box and MPEG4 hand-held video player have major problems...
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