On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 13:24, Christopher Woods <chris...@infinitus.co.uk> wrote:
> Indeed, 10.2 is much better and regular 1080p plays at 30fps thanks to the > NVidia ION GPU acceleration. (I've also tried both the 10.1 beta and the > final release as bundled in Chrome). Unfortunately the iPlayer web player > doesn't seem to be presenting the H.264 video in a manner in which the ION > GPU acceleration can be enabled to accelerate the video decoding, which > seems to be the problem here. (given YouTube works perfectly playing 1080p > with GPU acceleration and the iPlayer's 720p overwhelms the machine on > CPU-only decoding). It might not handle Main profile maybe? I'd hazard a guess that YouTube stuff is all Baseline... (though this doesn't explain my MPC would play it all back swimmingly unless there's some transcoding voodoo going on rather than just re-containering) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
