1080p playback hardware (2 Viewers)

[antibios]

I use a AMD Athlon II X2 235e / 2.7 GHz Energy Efficient processor. This is not a very fast processor, and even slow Atom processors can handle full HD. The real important thing is the videocard, the videocard has to help decode the HD-files. I use 2 Gb of ram. If u wanna know more check "My System". A quadcore is overkill for a simple HTPC.


I use an onboard videocard, the ATI 4200 wich is good enough to help decoding. So every ATI Radeon wich is newer/faster (4000/5000 series) than this one will work (with propper codec installation).

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There is no way you play 1080p on that setup. I have an E6600 and an ATI 3650 and I can barely play 1080p using ffdshow tryouts and haali and coreavc for x264

 

[Wizzing]

I use a AMD Athlon II X2 235e / 2.7 GHz Energy Efficient processor. This is not a very fast processor, and even slow Atom processors can handle full HD. The real important thing is the videocard, the videocard has to help decode the HD-files. I use 2 Gb of ram. If u wanna know more check "My System". A quadcore is overkill for a simple HTPC.


I use an onboard videocard, the ATI 4200 wich is good enough to help decoding. So every ATI Radeon wich is newer/faster (4000/5000 series) than this one will work (with propper codec installation).

PassMark CPU Benchmarks - Low End CPU's

There is no way you play 1080p on that setup. I have an E6600 and an ATI 3650 and I can barely play 1080p using ffdshow tryouts and haali and coreavc for x264

Yes I can. I can download, record television and play 1080p all at the same time. Either your configuration is wrong, but my best guess will be that your videocard doesn't support hd decoding.

I must admit that now I have upgraded my videocard to a 5450, because the 4200 had some driver issues with dual displays.

 

[antibios]

I use a AMD Athlon II X2 235e / 2.7 GHz Energy Efficient processor. This is not a very fast processor, and even slow Atom processors can handle full HD. The real important thing is the videocard, the videocard has to help decode the HD-files. I use 2 Gb of ram. If u wanna know more check "My System". A quadcore is overkill for a simple HTPC.


I use an onboard videocard, the ATI 4200 wich is good enough to help decoding. So every ATI Radeon wich is newer/faster (4000/5000 series) than this one will work (with propper codec installation).

PassMark CPU Benchmarks - Low End CPU's

There is no way you play 1080p on that setup. I have an E6600 and an ATI 3650 and I can barely play 1080p using ffdshow tryouts and haali and coreavc for x264

Yes I can. I can download, record television and play 1080p all at the same time. Either your configuration is wrong, but my best guess will be that your videocard doesn't support hd decoding.

I must admit that now I have upgraded my video card to a 5450, because the 4200 had some driver issues with dual displays.

I can certainly play 1080p as long as it is a standard h264, x264 and not VC-1 or m2ts file but even very high bit rates will start to stutter. The 3650 supports HD decoding and I have it setup to do so in ffdshow. Things with lots of movement like say a flock of birds moving across the screen will stutter the video. I have gotten it now to where almost anything except for very large files like 16 gigs and up can play okay but I am amazed you could achieve this with such an old cpu.

What is your codec setup?

 

[carlo_0000]

I use a AMD Athlon II X2 235e / 2.7 GHz Energy Efficient processor. This is not a very fast processor, and even slow Atom processors can handle full HD. The real important thing is the videocard, the videocard has to help decode the HD-files. I use 2 Gb of ram. If u wanna know more check "My System". A quadcore is overkill for a simple HTPC.


I use an onboard videocard, the ATI 4200 wich is good enough to help decoding. So every ATI Radeon wich is newer/faster (4000/5000 series) than this one will work (with propper codec installation).

PassMark CPU Benchmarks - Low End CPU's

There is no way you play 1080p on that setup. I have an E6600 and an ATI 3650 and I can barely play 1080p using ffdshow tryouts and haali and coreavc for x264

you probably have something wrong

because all amd dual core can play 1080p without dxva


i tested a year ago an athlon 64 (1core) 2800+ overclocked @ 2500mhz and was able to play 1080p x264 @8 mbits 25fps with mostly no lags under xp

for intel i tested only the atom with ion

the atom 330 can't handle 1080p without dxva but olso some slower core 1.6 if i remember

 

[antibios]

Dude, I totally misunderstood your setup. I thought you were talking about an oldschool athlon AMD single core 2.7 Ghz processor from like 99 for some reason. Just totally misread your post for some reason sorry.