full screen high def video playback program

[syeager]

I wish to view (and possibly edit) 1280x720x60p video at full resolution (not less than 100%) on my notebook that has a resolution of 1280x800. I usually like to use avidemux or kino, as they have great controls, but they do not play at 100%, or if they do, the window does not fit on my small screen. Is there a good player that allows good controls, and most importantly frame by frame forward and backward movement, that has a full screen mode (or with minimal window decorations but just small ui controls using the extra 80 pixel vertical resolution?

[disturbed1]

In Avidemux check out the options in the view tab. You can take away the main toolbar and side pane. Sounds like you need a larger monitor .

If Avidemux doesn't allow 100% playback, it's a limitation of your PC, not the program 60fps full speed playback will take quite a PC. Note that decoding is a single threaded application, so even if you have a PC with dual 2.4ghz quad cores (8x2.4) a single 3.2ghz cpu would be faster. Quad/dual core processors only accelerate multi-threaded applications, and offer 0 benefit to single threaded apps.

[guns1inger]

If your computer specs are correct then you probably do not have anywhere near enough grunt to play back 1080i/p material

[syeager]

Thanks for the feedback.

I am actually using my HP dv6113us notebook, which is limited to 1280x800 resolution. It is an amd dual-core 1.6ghz, 2gb ram, 80gb internal, 120gb external hd system. It may not be fast enough, but it will have to serve for now.

I like avidemux to be able to walk through the clip and analyze the details as well as edit and produce final output. I removed the main tool bar and side tool bar and it is very close. I see the entire image, and the progress bar. I can even see the tops of the buttons; barely. If linux (or rather enlightenment) allowed me to relocate the window's title bar partially off the screen, I could see it enough to use the buttons at the bottom properly. Or if I could temporarily remove the menu bar or make the progress bar not as tall. As it is, it is useable.

I read somewhere that various encoding programs can use multiple cores to decrease encoding times. Is avidemux configured to support this? Also, I am not yet running the 64bit kernel, but if I were, is avidemux designed to take advantage of the 64bits to increase processer performance for encoding or decoding?

And can xine or totem step forward or backward a single frame at a time?

[GMaq]

Hi,

Avidemux does have multithread support, I believe it defaults to "auto". You can set the number of threads in the preferences. Just be aware that not all codecs support multi-thread yet.

The main advantage of 64bit is it's ability to access larger amounts of memory, since video encoding is CPU intensive not memory intensive you will not really see much difference in encoding speed.

Having run 64bit and i386 Linux on the same machine using the same version of ffmpeg (for each architecture) I noticed virtually no encoding speed increase, however multi-thread support made a 30-40% speed increase.