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<blockquote data-quote="kiwijunglist" data-source="post: 428194" data-attributes="member: 76888"><p>[USER=14281]xclocked[/USER]: Your CPU would proabably struggle for 1080p decoding of videos using software acceleration, even with coreavc codec. Therefore you would need hardware decoding using a suitable graphics card or onboard graphics chip. Since the CPU is slightly old I would guess that the onboard graphics would be old too and not up to the task. If you get a new graphics card that does dxva then you would be fine for playing *most* 1080p movies. If you had a 1080p movie that was badly encoded and not compatible with hardware acceleration, then you would still get choppy playback.</p><p></p><p>You could try 1080p with your cpu and coreavc codec, and see if you are happy or not with the quality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kiwijunglist, post: 428194, member: 76888"] [USER=14281]xclocked[/USER]: Your CPU would proabably struggle for 1080p decoding of videos using software acceleration, even with coreavc codec. Therefore you would need hardware decoding using a suitable graphics card or onboard graphics chip. Since the CPU is slightly old I would guess that the onboard graphics would be old too and not up to the task. If you get a new graphics card that does dxva then you would be fine for playing *most* 1080p movies. If you had a 1080p movie that was badly encoded and not compatible with hardware acceleration, then you would still get choppy playback. You could try 1080p with your cpu and coreavc codec, and see if you are happy or not with the quality. [/QUOTE]
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