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Blitz

#! Member

From: Athens , Greece

Registered: 2009-10-12

Posts: 52

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GPU Acceleration and Flash support on 64bit Atom

I now own an Atom based desktop computer (Asrock A330ION, with 4gb DDR3 ram). My main concerns for returning to #! are the playback of 720p videos (because of the hardware acceleration required), and the use of flash player on Firefox using 64bit OS. I am not a fan of Mplayer, and i would like to now if VLC 1.1 will get the job done, as i have heard that it will be able for gpu acceleration. If anyone using similar hardware, could post me his findings, i would be grateful

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Val_B

#! CrunchBanger

From: SE United States

Registered: 2010-01-25

Posts: 238

Re: GPU Acceleration and Flash support on 64bit Atom

Well my hardware isn't too similar, but on my MSI Wind u100 I can run 720p (1366x768) videos without issue but, my video does 'freeze' for a few seconds while audio contiues on 1080p (1920 × 1080) videos. The 720p videos used to be a bit jumpy until I enabled real time priority in VLC and that seemed to solve the issue.

I don't use 64 bit operating systems on any of my pcs at the moment so I cannot comment on the flash thing.

Note: almost all the video I watch is anime in the Matroska format so YMMV.

Last edited by Val_B (2010-07-07 14:09:04)

GuruX

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-01-18

Posts: 527

Re: GPU Acceleration and Flash support on 64bit Atom

Yeah. VLC 1.1 is supposed to hardware accelerate video. Check your settings.
There is also another alternative which I stumbeled upon. VAAPI http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/

Blitz

#! Member

From: Athens , Greece

Registered: 2009-10-12

Posts: 52

Website

Re: GPU Acceleration and Flash support on 64bit Atom

On the features list page of VLC 1.1 (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/1.1.0.html) is mentioned that " GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 " , so vaapi is equivalent to vdpau?

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anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,418

Re: GPU Acceleration and Flash support on 64bit Atom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAAPI

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