On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Travis King <ona...@lavabit.com> wrote: > That's incredible. I was reading some threads(albeit from some Linux > distro mailing list) from 2008 about a 2Ghz Core2Duo with some Intel > GPU on a R61(a machine I recently bought) being too slow for 1080 > resolutions with mplayer in any situation. > > This gives me some hope that I don't need to down-convert media to > 720p... What codecs and containers are you using, and what bitrate?
Well, we all know linux is unusable as a desktop operating system. :) Exact performance probably depends on screen resolution too, I'm downscaling, but the R61 if I'm not mistaken may have a bigger screen. The files I was playing with were mp4, maybe around 5 mbit?
