What sort of computer does one require to play HDTV?

Post by **Foo** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:24 pm

So have you guys determined whether it's the streaming that's causing the problem, or whether it happens even playing hi-def from your hard drive?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:28 pm

ToxicBug wrote:I can view 480p, but its not silky smooth. Therefore I don't feel like watching it, unless its absolutely perfectly smooth. For some people it would be perfectly watcheable though.

ok, but you know how i am with video/audio and streaming 480p didn't bother me one bit.

Foo, i just reformatted last week and i do have a copy of Step Into Liquid in hi-def, but i don't have anything on my hdd. I'll need to update WMP (since i never use it) but i'll check it out and post my results.

Post by **dzjepp** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:32 pm

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

There Microsoft recommends a 2.4GHz cpu to play these. They do definately slow-down on lower spec machines, even if you have them saved on a hard disk.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:45 pm

dzjepp wrote:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=abde1e02-b529-469e-ae6a-7417fcde9e12&displaylang=en

There Microsoft recommends a 2.4GHz cpu to play these. They do definately slow-down on lower spec machines, even if you have them saved on a hard disk.

yeah, they're referring to 720p and >

this is why i have no problems with 480p on my machine ;o

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:09 pm

What specs are required for playing 1080i video?

Post by **Psyche911** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:27 pm

The newest generation of GPUs should really help, as they accelerate decoding of formats like H.264. At least the hardware supports it currently, but not the drivers (for ATi, I'm not sure about nVidia).

Post by **dzjepp** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:46 pm

I wasn't aware of this before, but the new QT7 apparently lets you save streams for watching later? That is kewl. QT Alrernative has been updated today with QT7 (and the Mega Codec Pack prolly tommorow or in a few days).

Toxic, don't know why you can't save these streams, but if you where able to, then you should be able to try the tip I posted, the alternative way of playing the HD .mov clips, it might work faster on your machine.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:30 am

Massive Quasars wrote:What specs are required for playing 1080i video?

MS says:

Optimum Configuration
(to play 1080p video with 5.1 surround sound)
# Windows XP
# Windows Media Player 10
# DirectX 9.0
# 3.0 GHz processor or equivalent
# 512 MB of RAM
# 128 MB video card
# 1920 x 1440 screen resolution
# 24-bit 96 kHz multichannel sound card
# 5.1 surround sound speaker system

hey Toxic (or anyone), try this page at Microsoft.com that has 720p and 1080i downloadable clips

bink

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:54 am

Toxic, here are Apple's recommendations for both MAC and Windows.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:27 pm

Thanks :lub:

Post by **Psyche911** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:03 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:Toxic, here are Apple's recommendations for both MAC and Windows.

I can only do 480p.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:27 pm

Psyche911 wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:Toxic, here are Apple's recommendations for both MAC and Windows.

I can only do 480p.

I can barely do 480p. ffs

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:59 pm

i run em fine. loller.

Post by **dzjepp** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:49 pm

So this codec is processor dependant then?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:36 am

ToxicBug wrote:Thanks :lub:

=o

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:22 am

dzjepp wrote:So this codec is processor dependant then?

Well, unless your graphics card supplies hardware h.264 support.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:53 am

Grudge wrote:
dzjepp wrote:So this codec is processor dependant then?
Well, unless your graphics card supplies hardware h.264 support.

what's that got to do with hi-def? am i that tired that i am confusing this?

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:26 am

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Grudge wrote:
dzjepp wrote:So this codec is processor dependant then?
Well, unless your graphics card supplies hardware h.264 support.
what's that got to do with hi-def? am i that tired that i am confusing this?

Isn't the h.264 the preferred codec for broadcasted HD content?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:28 am

i've not heard anything about it being "preferred" for broadcasting, but that could very well be. for Blu-Ray though, it's one of three. the other two are MPEG-4 AVC High Profile (previously called FRExt) and Microsoft's VC-1 video codec (the proposed SMPTE standard based on WMV9), which are mandatory.