Smooth watching of 1080p movies, min?

[petala]

Whats the minimum requirement for smooth viewing of 1080p movies? The fastest PC in my house now is 1.86ghz intel centrino with 1GB DDR2 RAM. Is it sufficient?

Or lets say I want to make a low-power entertainment PC but still can play FULL HD 1080p movies;
core2duo 2.6-3.16 (maybe the lowest speed of core2duo)
2gb ddr2 of ram
ati 4770 <---- do this card got smoothvision, HD viewing (?) or some instructions for smoothing videos or at least take some of the process off the cpu?
xp pro OS.

Can it run FULL HD 1080p x264 movies or even blu-ray discs? Gonna run this PC 24/7 thats why need low-power parts, kind of like a seedbox, heh.

ps: download full hd 720p 4.39GB right now, hope my pc can play it. btw is every in here only download full HD/HD videos only? secretmyth, newartriot, titan etc. is hdrip not exactly True HD, just saying.

[asellus]

Replace the ATI card with a nVidia GPU with PureVideo 2 or 3, use MPC-HC for DXVA and it can play any H.264 videos you throw at it, even 1080p High@L5.1 16 reference frame videos. And Blu-ray discs too (although you may want to look at G98 nVidia IGPs for this for multichannel LPCM support).

[gashbell]

i was ranting about this matter a few months back, thread is here

http://www.bolehvpn.net/forum/index.php/topic,4007.0.html

Whats the minimum requirement for smooth viewing of 1080p movies? The fastest PC in my house now is 1.86ghz intel centrino with 1GB DDR2 RAM. Is it sufficient?

mine is amd athlon k6 3000+ (that is around 1.8ghz) + 3gb ram + 1 ancient graphic card still can watch 1080 movies, but some scenes will be missing - like it jumped from A to D skipping the C and D part. Like asellus mentioned, try emphasizing on your graphic card if you need to upgrade. i'm using a new radeon ddr5 2gb 256bit card now and watching these kind of files is no problem.

[petala]

asellus: ...even 1080p High@L5.1 16 reference frame videos.

I'm not very good in technicalities of videos even I don't know where to start here, ehem, say what is L5.1/16 reference frame videos?

gashbell: I'm using a new radeon ddr5 2gb 256bit card now and watching these kind of files is no problem.

aselles:Replace the ATI card with a nVidia GPU with PureVideo 2 or 3

I got one ancient pc here, P4 1.5ghz, 1GB ddr ram, ati 9550 256mb. If I just change the graphic card to ati HDxx or Nvidia purevideo is that means I can run smoothly full HD 1080p DTS movies by using my GPU to do all the processing?

Gonna check that thread gashbell, thanks.

[asellus]

asellus: ...even 1080p High@L5.1 16 reference frame videos.

I'm not very good in technicalities of videos even I don't know where to start here, ehem, say what is L5.1/16 reference frame videos?

Basically, you can play any H.264 videos with nVidia GPUs without worrying about its encoding specs. This doesn't apply to ATI cards.

asellus:Replace the ATI card with a nVidia GPU with PureVideo 2 or 3

I got one ancient pc here, P4 1.5ghz, 1GB ddr ram, ati 9550 256mb. If I just change the graphic card to ati HDxx or Nvidia purevideo is that means I can run smoothly full HD 1080p DTS movies by using my GPU to do all the processing?

If your motherboard has PCI-E slot, then getting a nVidia GPU (anything above G80) with 512MB RAM is all you need for playing full HD 1080p videos.

[petala]

If your motherboard has PCI-E slot, then getting a nVidia GPU (anything above G80) with 512MB RAM is all you need for playing full HD 1080p videos.

Too ancient, PCI and AGP 4x only here the only saving grace is lcd monitor samsung 2322bw and knowing the price of this monitor now really makes me pissed.  :'( Build a new computer is the only logical way.

btw for any LCD Monitor user heres some colour profile using accurate calibration with lacie blue eye pro so its going to be great!
http://www.digitalversus.com/article-424.html
 
Thanks asellus & gashbell. cheerio~

[PitBoss]

If you have tv and USB, just get WD-HDTV player which cost less than building a new PC and can play about anything you throw at it. Cost of using this is:
250GB 2.5" USB = should be within RM250 and cost of WD-HDTV is RM499 last I heard. Definitely cheaper than new PC and you can play it i just about any LCD TV, LCD Monitor and old tv as well.
Even the samsung monitor you mentioned is not worth watching movies, maybe an ultrasharp Dell 24" be a better choice (RM2K) or just get LCD TV 32" at that price - if no budget, just get WDTV + USB HDD.

Havent heard of anyone regretting buying WDTV.

[kenkan73]

Get your current P4 PC as seedbox that you mention. Get another set of WDTV & External HDD +  HDMI cable and you have your entertainment system. I recall WDTV also have optical output which I am not sure whether it will enable the full use of DTS stream via external amplifier or not.

[petala]

Even the samsung monitor you mentioned is not worth watching movies, maybe an ultrasharp Dell 24" be a better choice (RM2K) or just get LCD TV 32" at that price - if no budget, just get WDTV + USB HDD.

This monitor is only 18-20 month old and still fine, don't think gonna kaching for another lcd. Not worth watching movies, dude what can I do budget is tight, btw back then HD still not that popular, everyone and me still think *.avi dvdrip is more than enough. But now, kind of 'Aaaahhhh, why not get "that", instead of "this"'. :'(

Get another set of WDTV & External HDD +  HDMI cable and you have your entertainment system.

Will think about it, BTW my tv is a samsung CRT 29inch (the white one,grey) with scanlines super visible same as psp 3000 having. Damn you samsung! So if anyone going to buy an old technology same as myself better check it first.

ps: kenkan73 are you the same person in iptorrent? Theres someone called kenkan too in iptorrent if I'm not mistaken. If its true, say... if its not too much can we/I request files here or pm or?

[kenkan73]

Same person here. You can put up in the user request in IPT. pbbolehvpn and bolehvpn user request always fulfill first. PM me also OK but I only do 720p and not 1080p because my PC is only P4 3.2Ghz and not running smooth on 1080p. If you are from Penang and accepting 720p then bring along 1TB and I will fill it up for you.

[dexbot.fallout3]

@Petala, there's a link in my sig to a 1080p sample for you to test. It's a short clip from Planet Earth and it is the most taxing 1080p content I've ever come across. Basically, if you can play it, you're good to go.

However, a 1.86GHz centrino will not.

[petala]

Yes, even 1.86ghz centrino with ati X300 can't handle it, I believe I'm watching a beautiful slideshow more than a full hd video. But the video is just breathtakingly beautifully awesome especially the waterfall~!

thanks everyone for all the info.

[alpha]

Same person here. You can put up in the user request in IPT. pbbolehvpn and bolehvpn user request always fulfill first. PM me also OK but I only do 720p and not 1080p because my PC is only P4 3.2Ghz and not running smooth on 1080p. If you are from Penang and accepting 720p then bring along 1TB and I will fill it up for you.

*Off topic abit*
bah kenkan!
u from penang???
and if i bring 1TB too..will you fill it up for me too?
i see you have alot of fantastic "things" that interests me...

[petala]

1.66GHz Centrino, 2.24GB DDR2 RAM, 320GB HDD & Intel Graphics. First try to play group TLF x264 AC3 720p HD movie 4.39GB video got delay by using mpc-homecinema. Read somewhere in iptorrents comments about changing RAM BUFFER for HAALI renderer to the maximum (your choice, slides mine to 256MB the maximum) and actually using HAALI renderer for videos, video turns out smooth and very watchable using mpc-homecinema.

My ancient PC hang and hard reboot is the only thing I can do. It seems lower performance PC is still good when playing 720p movies.

[mcvlai]

go n buy dvico tvix n plug to yuor plasma. can play up yo bdmv.