I've been in trial mode here for a few weeks tinkering with some of the later notebook & netbook releases with HDMI ports etc, and with two desktops, one with and older GeForce 8400 GS card, DVI to a nice 23" blu-ray spec monitor, the other with Radeon 6350 Sapphire low profile card.
I had been puzzled by some reports posted here and there about stuttering 1080P playback in the newer Aspire One 522 and/or 722 Netbooks which have the C50/C60 APU's and non-dedicated-vram Radeon 6xxx GPU's. I personally cleaned one of these up [a 722 c50 model], outfitted with the later CCC and drivers, stopped the background noise etc and got pretty decent 1080P playback output across HDMI to a 46" Bravia display. not bad. So I wondered at why some were having difficulty..
so today I took my desktops for another trial spin.
two high framerate 1080P movie Trailers I use because they are really dense & demanding are from the Ironman2 release, and from Avatar [actually a couple of pics each.] I wanted to compare subjective experience on my "known good" desktop vs. the netbooks. What surprised me was to see some stuttering and breakup on the desktop platform that I had not experienced anytime previously. I turned off everything i could that might be interfering [win7] and did some experimenting.
What's going on is this: If you start the vid and let it buffer a bit first, then switch it to Fullscreen 1080P while it is running, I'll get stuttering. But if I then run the slider back to the beginning again, it runs smoothly. I've never seen that before and can't come up with a rational reason. Anyone know why this would be? In other words, after the clip/file is fully buffered up, if its played from the beginning its ok, but from somewhere in the midst, its not smooth.
? clues?
I had been puzzled by some reports posted here and there about stuttering 1080P playback in the newer Aspire One 522 and/or 722 Netbooks which have the C50/C60 APU's and non-dedicated-vram Radeon 6xxx GPU's. I personally cleaned one of these up [a 722 c50 model], outfitted with the later CCC and drivers, stopped the background noise etc and got pretty decent 1080P playback output across HDMI to a 46" Bravia display. not bad. So I wondered at why some were having difficulty..
so today I took my desktops for another trial spin.
two high framerate 1080P movie Trailers I use because they are really dense & demanding are from the Ironman2 release, and from Avatar [actually a couple of pics each.] I wanted to compare subjective experience on my "known good" desktop vs. the netbooks. What surprised me was to see some stuttering and breakup on the desktop platform that I had not experienced anytime previously. I turned off everything i could that might be interfering [win7] and did some experimenting.
What's going on is this: If you start the vid and let it buffer a bit first, then switch it to Fullscreen 1080P while it is running, I'll get stuttering. But if I then run the slider back to the beginning again, it runs smoothly. I've never seen that before and can't come up with a rational reason. Anyone know why this would be? In other words, after the clip/file is fully buffered up, if its played from the beginning its ok, but from somewhere in the midst, its not smooth.
? clues?
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- HP DC7600, HP DC7600[2], HP DC7100, Samsung NC10
- OS
- Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, Windows XP Home SP3
- CPU
- Pentium 4 3.2GHz, Pentium 4 3.4GHz 64bit, Atom,
- Motherboard
- Dunno
- Memory
- 4GB matched, 1GB, 2.5GB, 4.0 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Geforce 8400 GS and others
- Sound Card
- RealteK ALC260 and others
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Asus HD
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- WD Caviar 640gb SATA
- Cooling
- We Be Cool