So i want to watch a 1080p HD movie on my computer that i got from Lovefilm online and its 1080p
WOuld my GT240 be able to cope watching Hangover 1080p HD on a 20" 1680x1050 screen?
[QUOTE=derlicious;21697742]So i want to watch a 1080p HD movie on my computer that i got from Lovefilm online and its 1080p
WOuld my GT240 be able to cope watching Hangover 1080p HD on a 20" 1680x1050 screen?[/QUOTE]
You can't watch 1080p on that screen. But aside from that, the graphics card isn't really that big of a deal when watching movies.
Sure enough be able to play but unless your monitor is actually a hd monitor then it wouldnt be as good a picture than a hd screen get it?
Why cant i watch 1080p on this screen..
BTW its a Samsung 2032bw
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Yeh i just thought it would struggle
Close thread please
It can definitely play it though :)
1080p is a resolution, 1920x1080. you can't watch 1080p movies at their full resolution on a 1680x1050 monitor.
would it be like 1680x900?
what?
[QUOTE=derlicious;21698221]would it be like 1680x900?[/QUOTE]
uhm, what?
to play an HD Movie at it's native aspect ratio you need a 16:9 aspect ratio. Your screen is a 16:10. So you'll get borders along the top and bottom of the image. And you won't get to see all the detail in true 1080P HD.
You'll just be watching a squashed down (downsampled) version of the image.
But you will definately get greater quality with 1080P on your monitor, than you would with 720P
kk, but would it look nice??
Yes stop worrying it'll look fine.
[QUOTE=derlicious;21701122]kk, but would it look nice??[/QUOTE]
It will look nice. But not it's nicest.
OK well it's only temporary for my HTPC to be on that monitor
According to my calculations, that 1080P movie will be played back at 1680x945 on that monitor. The 240 should be able to accelerate HD playback, depending on what player you use.
[QUOTE=derlicious;21698221]would it be like 1680x900?[/QUOTE]
guys he's talking about the displayed resolution after being scaled down
if it's a 16:9, full frame 1920x1080, then yes you'd be seeing 1080p scaled down to 1680x945. here's a list of what the end result would be, once scaled down for your monitor. these are the most commonly used ratios
16:9 - - - -1680 x 945
1.85:1 - - 1680 x 908
2.35:1 - - 1680 x 715
2.39:1 - - 1680 x 703
2.4:1 - - - 1680 x 700
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[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;21707612]According to my calculations, that 1080P movie will be played back at 1680x945 on that monitor. The 240 should be able to accelerate HD playback, depending on what player you use.[/QUOTE]
assuming he has at least a decent dual core it shouldn't really make much of a difference
[QUOTE=cdlink14;21698359]uhm, what?
to play an HD Movie at it's native aspect ratio you need a 16:9 aspect ratio. Your screen is a 16:10. So you'll get borders along the top and bottom of the image. And you won't get to see all the detail in true 1080P HD.
You'll just be watching a squashed down (downsampled) version of the image.
But you will definately get greater quality with 1080P on your monitor, than you would with 720P[/QUOTE]
The image will actually look better on a 1680x1050 monitor compared to a 1920x1080 if you have a decoder that doesn't suck arse. But you will have letterboxing on the top and bottom, though it really isn't noticeable because it's just a thin whisp of a black bar. It'll look better because you have more detail concentrated in a smaller area.
[QUOTE=M_B;21709836]assuming he has at least a decent dual core it shouldn't really make much of a difference[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I threw that in because he seemed worried about getting good playback, which made me wonder if his CPU was a slow one.
I can play 1080p movies on my Pentium 4, with my 4670 accelerating it. Uses about 20% processor.
My htpc has an 8400GS and a Pentium IV and does 1080p fine.
[QUOTE=Metalcastr;21745059]I can play 1080p movies on my Pentium 4, with my 4670 accelerating it. Uses about 20% processor.[/QUOTE]
That's even with a major bottleneck.
1080p is very easy to run.
depends on quite a few things
output resolution
video rendering resolution and quality(some players will compensate and sort of half the resolution or lower the quality, sort of killing the point)
source video resolution
video codec
video bitrate
audio codec
audio bitrate
audio resolution
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my old athlon 3500+ could handle low-bitrate 1080p fine, but it couldn't handle something much better looking like a 30mbps video
Hardware acceleration is the key.
I put a 5450 in my friend's computer. He does not game, outside of an occasional Freecell game, at all. What he did was typical office computing, and now would like to watch HD with his computer. It's a Pentium 4 Prescott, 2.8ghz single core, 1gb ram. He had an old ATI X300 in it(remember, he doesn't game).
But it couldn't handle HD video, from Youtube or anywhere else. So I told him how newer ATI cards could handle video acceleration for him and he decided after 5 years it's time to retire the X300.
Well, with that 5450 there has been nothing he can't play including 1080P. I didn't have the time to install Adobe's beta Flash player, and he does not want to install beta software, so Youtube 1080P is not yet tested. But I did bring over tons of video from other sources and they all look awesome and play back with no problems. His CPU load can range from under 20% to 70-80% depending on what type of video he's watching. This is using Powerdvd 10 as primary 1080P player.
if you don't have a shitty CPU, putting the playback all on the CPU has a better result than GPU acceleration.
[QUOTE=Smasher 006;21697794]You can't watch 1080p on that screen. But aside from that, the graphics card isn't really that big of a deal when watching movies.[/QUOTE]
Ahem.
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The graphic card has to show images this size, 25 times a second. If it's an integrated intel chip, it's gonna have a problem, though anything above an integrated intel family chip is capable of playing bluray.
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