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On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Am 27.07.2012 22:22, schrieb Michael Mol: |
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>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>>> I am getting a new laptop. (likely dell 6430). |
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>>> The two graphics options are intel HD 4000 and nvidia NVS 5200M. |
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>>> Dell is as expected suggesting the 5200M. |
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>>> I do not need 3D or fast response. Dell hinted that DVDs might not play |
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>>> with the intel HD 4000. This seems weird to me as the 4000 is supposed |
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>>> to be a big improvement over the 3000 and I can't believe dell or others |
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>>> would have sold laptops that can't play dvds |
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>>> Any comments or experiences? |
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>> My Duron 750MHz was able to decode DVDs in realtime. After that, all |
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>> you're doing is blitting (or using xv) the frames to the screen. I |
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>> would be absolutely shocked if the Intel HD 4000 GPU couldn't handle |
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>> that basic of a 2D acceleration function. |
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>> Now, DVDs use MPEG2. Blu-Ray uses h.264, which is a much harder beast |
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>> to decode in realtime. It's possible the HD 4000 GPU can't handle |
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>> hardware decode of h.264, but I don't know. I've never looked into it. |
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>> (Software decode of 1080p h.264 on my Phenom 9650 worked somewhat, but |
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>> highly active scenes would cause frame drops.) |
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> I've experienced issues playing DVDs on fullscreen with the OSS radeon |
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> driver. Therefore I'm cautious of assumptions that something works |
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> simply because the input is easy to decode. Upscaling to large displays |
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> with high resolutions can be an issue. |
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> I'm not saying the Intel driver cannot handle it. I'm just saying you |
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> should try it or look for reports. |
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How high is 'high' resolution? I was upscaling to 1600x1200 using an a |
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Radeon 9600; that card would now be almost ten years old. A bit later, |
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I did the same on a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 using an i845-based Intel |
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graphics card. Here's the line from lspci, as run in May of 2007: |
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation |
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82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) |
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Hardware scaling a 2D image is one of the most trivial |
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hardware-accelerated options GPUs perform. If someone had difficulties |
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upscaling a 480p (roughly what DVDs are) to 1080p at 24 or 33fps, I |
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would be very highly suspicious of a software misconfiguration. That |
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kind of scaling should even be comfortably doable in software on any |
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modern x86-derived processor. (With the plausible exclusion of the |
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Atom CPU) |
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:wq |