While on desktops there are dedicated encoding cards that also offload the decoding of specific formats, there are also a few notebooks with similar solutions, being a somewhat recent batch of toshibas having the same cpu as the playstation 3, only with a few less cores. And unless theres embedded support for the hardware in graphic drivers, you're limited to software support, which at this point is rather narrow.
On May 7, 12:46 am, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting, I might look into this, sounds similar to nvidias technology > which dumps all encoding and decoding on the GPu, except this is dedicated > which is good news. > > THEfog > > On 07/05/2010 12:26 AM, "Nin-lil-izi" <[email protected]> wrote: > > AFAIK, The .MKV's require a lot more CPU power to decode video than > some of the older less effective codecs. > Just real GPU's have functionality to accelerate the decoding of > certain formats within their drivers that essentially a separate > pipeline to the 3D rendering pipelines. a high bitrate .MKV can peg a > core on my high end Phenom system if I disable the Video acceleration > part of its GPU's > > One solution would be to add a dedicated video decoder board into your > system. Many laptops over the last few years have shipped with empty/ > spare internal miniPCI-E ports on their motherboards. You can pick up > suitable boards on ebay for as little as £15, and the trickiest part > of their installation is figuring how to get into the laptop. So > installation should not be too tricky for anybody with a bit of > patience and manual dexterity. > IMHO, Tasked with just outputting the raw video, and most of the CPU > cycles needed for decoding offloaded to the decoder. Even a netbook > should manage HD content without too much difficulty > > On May 6, 5:59 am, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > @tribaljet > > Yeah I read about fi... > > On 06/05/2010 1:48 PM, "tribaljet" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Actually, and if I'm not mis... > > -- > INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS -- INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
