1080p on a pinetrail based netbook?

omgwtfbyobbq · 2010-10-23 03:43:23

It seems that jolicloud can supposedly handle 1080p. Do other distros offer this or does jolicloud have exclusive access something that the other distros don't?

Watermel0n · 2010-10-23 09:37:32

No no no. Jolicloud doesn't do something special. I would even go so far and say that arch does handle HD content with mplayer better. I heard that Jolicloud doesn't handle 1080p content with h264, only with xvid (mpeg4 codecs). These exist way longer and therefore have better algorithms and run faster on older hardware. Arch is generelly faster than a ubuntu netbook remix fork. (686 > 386).

Pierre · 2010-10-23 10:04:00

Would be interesting to test. Unfortunately I don't have a full hd external monitor. But I was able to play the sintel 1280 video scaled to 1680x1050 without problems. I am using x86_64 on my netbook so that should give me some advantages here.

However I doubt the atom is able to decode a full hd bluray an the pinetrail lacks a vaapi decoder.

brendan · 2010-10-26 15:10:44

Unless there is a broadcom crystal hd card in there, no chance for pinetrail to do 1080p. It can handle 720p in software, but thats it. I've tested a 70015 broadcom decoder in a pinetrail Atom D510 and it works very well. However without the 70015 you wont get anywhere with 1080p

unfortunately there is no vaapi on pinetrail, like pierre said.

Pierre · 2010-10-26 15:26:20

I don't think there is a great use case for playing 1080p video on a netbook anyway. It has only analog outputs and you have to plug your bluray drive into the usb port.

Berticus · 2010-10-26 20:45:01

the only reason why I'd be interested in one is so I wouldn't have to transcode any videos I'd want to watch.

omgwtfbyobbq · 2010-11-08 04:30:30

So far so good. W/ mplayer-mt it seems to handle anything 720p, but h264 1080p blueray is unpossible and other h264 videos at 1080p (older codecs at 1080p w/ less compression are fine) are hit and miss depending on the myplayer options used. 1080P over VGA to my LCD should be fine but I've read that not all HDTVs support it for some reason. I haven't checked whether or not this netbook will support it, so that's something else to do.

Last edited by omgwtfbyobbq (2010-11-08 04:33:36)

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#1 2010-10-23 03:43:23

1080p on a pinetrail based netbook?

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