Can Radeon 9600 Pro run fullHD (1080p)?

[GeraDOT]

Hi to company!

I have a problem with playing fulHD video (h264, ts) with my PC:
P4 3.0 Ghz
Gigabyte Ati Radeon 9600 Pro AGP8x (256MB)
1920x1080 HDMI Samsung LCD panel (TV)
2 GB RAM
120 GB & 450 GB SATA HDD's
Board: ... P4P800SE
WinXP Pro SP3.

720p plays good but CPU usage rises upto 50%. Trying to play 1080p format stucks picture every 3-4 seconds while CPU used 100%. Where is the bottleneck here? The card or wrong setting somewhere?. Thanks in advace for your response.

[johns0]

Both video card and cpu are bottle necks,you will need at least a dual core and a good pci-e video card,my amd64 3400 wiith a 7800gs couldnt play a 1020 video smoothly till i got a amd x2 6000 with a 8600gts.

[GeraDOT]

Oh, I see. It looks like that. That is really bad news. Thanks nevertheless, johns0.

[edDV]

Hi to company!

I have a problem with playing fulHD video (h264, ts) with my PC:
P4 3.0 Ghz
Gigabyte Ati Radeon 9600 Pro AGP8x (256MB)...

Your system should be fast enough to play 1080p/24 MPeg2 at >15Mb/s. It may be fast enough to play wmv-hd 1080p.

It is not able to handle 1080p h.264 decode with that CPU and display card.

[GeraDOT]

Your system should be fast enough to play 1080p/24 MPeg2 at >15Mb/s. It may be fast enough to play wmv-hd 1080p.

It is not able to handle 1080p h.264 decode with that CPU and display card.

O.K. That sounds much better! Thanks edDV! So, what I have to do in such situation? Convert h264 to avi? Could you advice some good converters for it?

[edDV]

h.264 is a high compression codec that requires a fast CPU+GPU to decode in real time.

You can recode non realtime to MPeg2 at @ >15Mb/s* and have a good chance to play that file in real time. The MPeg2 file will be several times larger.


*this is equivalent to HD broadcast format.

[GeraDOT]

What you think about such a card:
SVGA PCI Express,2 GB, Palit, Revolution 700 D, ATI Radeon HD4870X2, HDMI/DVI/DP, [AE5487XSF0545] ?

Coud it be used in my PC?

[greymalkin]

that video card is probably overkill unless you are doing gaming as well. Again, if you are doing gaming, your CPU is going to be a big bottleneck.

For HD you could get the radeon 4830 for well under 100 dollars, make sure your motherboard has pci-e slots...being a p4 it may not.

[jagabo]

To play 1080p24 h.264 you need one of two things: either a dual core CPU (and multithreaded h.264 decoder like CoreAVC pro or a recent version of ffdshow) or a graphics card with hardware h.264 decoding (and a player that supports DXVA, the Microsoft subsystem used for hardware decoding). Of course, it doesn't hurt to have both.

[greymalkin]

yeah you also need a decent software player if you want to play hd-dvd or bluRay...and those I believe are buggy at best.

[GeraDOT]

Thank you all for contribution to this thread!
I'm not a gamer, too old for that. ))) I just like to watch sometimes a movie of good quality pictures (since my eyesight is still good). I was sure that my PC is in more-or-less up-to-date state untill I got a set of HD-rips of 1080p movies encoded with h264. ))) In fact the PC is five years old))) and without the chance of further upgrade (no PCI-E, AGP bus). So it looks like the new computer is a must.