On 6 Mar 2008, at 07:46, Winterlight wrote:
At 09:26 PM 3/5/2008, you wrote:
Damn, I haven't tried this, but TomsHardware pretty well flushes it
out. Using the 780G, they get 1080P playback using a Sempron 3200+
(which is total crap)
I have a board here on the shelf, a ASUS K8N-E Deluxe with a
Semperon 3400 in it, and 1.5 GB of Kingston PC400 RAM. It runs very
cool and doesn't require a large noisy fan so I was thinking of
building a media box with it, just for playback and recording. With
the right AGP video card in it would I have any problem playing back
1080P with it? Or should I sell it and start over?
I can't, think of any AGP graphics boards that do full/semi-full H264/
VC-1 offload, which a 3400+ Sempie is going to need.
It MIGHT be able to handle 720P using CoreAVC ( http://
www.coreavc.com/ ) as the decoder.. but I'd be sketchy about it
without testing it.
a Friend of mine was having trouble playing a 1080P video I sent him
on a 2.4Ghz Macbook Pro (in OSX or Vista), that was 7GB for an hour of
video.. which sounds especially huge, but that's nowhere near the max
data rate for blu-ray If I just totted the math up in my head right.
Actually, I take the first part back, Radeon 2600HD's are available in
AGP format.
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=770342
-JB
