trallala
10-14-2009, 11:43 AM
first of, im german so if my english sucks, thats why
i plan on building an htpc and would like to know what the hardware minimum is for watching streaming videos with 1080p. is the asus at3n7a-i sufficient? its supposed to be able to play 1080p videos from your harddrive but is it also enough for 1080p streaming videos?
thx in advance
Blazer
10-14-2009, 01:17 PM
dont know much about streaming video, i would guess a gigabyte network would be needed to stream video from a server, if thats what you want to do,but that mobo has an Atom processor which i dont think meets the minimum requirements for HD.
rbinck
10-14-2009, 01:30 PM
Streaming video involves a source and a destination device. I assume the source would be the HTPC you mentioned. The other end will require some sort of media player, so:
Streaming to what? Like a Popcorn Hour? Also which 1080p? 1080p/24 will actually take less bandwidth than 1080i/30. 1080p/60 would take twice the bandwidth of 1080i/30.
trallala
10-14-2009, 01:39 PM
lil misunderstanding here
i dont want to stream videos with my pc, i want to watch streaming videos (like youtube) and i meant 1080p/24
@blazer
according to asusDOTcom it can
asusDOTcom/product.aspx?P_ID=xrR7wto9Z5BL42aU
quote: "Enjoy Full HD 1080p Multimedia Home-Theater Entertainment"
DexterMorgan
10-15-2009, 08:05 AM
usually web video doesn't use hardware acceleration, so your CPU would do all of the work. I don't think an Atom 330 is powerful enough for 1080p Flash video. As far as I know, YouTube goes up to 720p, which that CPU should be able to play.
BluRays that it can play uses the GPU, so 1080p is possible in that respect.
m2008
10-16-2009, 11:18 AM
It should be ok. Im not sure if atom will be able to decode reatime Full HD h.264 but you can always download a file to your Hard disk and play it with Splash player or mpc-hc. Both support DXVA decoding and if you have nvidia 9xxx then you will be able to use it :)
trallala
10-16-2009, 12:37 PM
if anything, i'd use vlc player
and yes i know, the atom cant do that, thats why i ask what CAN do that. i am currently eyeing this mainboard:
pdenDOTzotacDOTcom/index.php?page=shop.product_details&product_id=145&category_id=7&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1
as for the cpu, i have no freakin clue. i dont wanna buy a quadcore if a good dualcore will do and i dont wanna buy a good dualcore if a medium one is enough. i dont have much money and since full hd streams are the biggest challenge it'll meet, i dont see a point in buying high-end crap
