Wanna test-drive that 3GHz P4?

[lecter]

Then go

here and take a look at MS's latest high-quality movie trailers, encoded with WM9 at either either 1280 x 720 (720p) or 1920 x 1280 (1080p).

System Requirements
Although other system configurations may be able to playback this content, for an optimal experience we recommend systems of at least a 2.53 GHz Intel or AMD Athlon XP 2200+ or higher processor for 720p and 3.0GHz or greater processor for 1080p. For either scenario, an AGP4x based NVIDIA or ATI video adapter card with at least 32 MB of RAM and the most recent OEM driver updates is recommended.

The higher the data rate (in Mbps), the higher the resource requirement. For optimal playback of 1080p content, an AGP8x 128MB video card is required.



Suffice to say, my 2.5GHz Northwood&Parhelia were sent packing by the highest-resolution videos

[Paddy]

Downloadind the 1080p Coral Reef.
Lets see how my XP1800 and AIW8500 handle it

[Paddy]

No ... it can't.

[K6-III]

Let's see how my TBred OC'd to 2.4ghz and my Parhelia handle it...

BTW, the T2 Extreme WM9 DVD played back perfect on my box...at 1080p

[Nowhere]

Luckily we probably won't see such encodings in massive use.
We don't have many source materials to be converted to such files after all. And what's the difference on usual computer screen anyway?

So I think that even much slower processors than mine XP1700 (maxing at ~40 or 50% of cpu usage during usual movie playback with all high quality options maxed out) will be enough for some time.

[K6-III]

Yeah, but on a HTPC attached to a CRT projector...

[K6-III]

Oh, and the difference is visible even on a small computer monitor...

[K6-III]

Damn, at 2.38ghz, my CPU chockes on the reef clip.

Will see if it does better at 2.5ghz later...

[bsdgeek]

You aren't still running an OCd 1700+ are you?

[Nowhere]

K6-III, anyway, there are not much materials in such quality.

[Tjalfe]

Crappy dialup... I would love to test out the XP2500+ @3200+ with R9500Pro .. I will have to download it monday at work

[Chucky Cheese]

Mine Play it Good



Terminator 2 Extreme @ 720p plays fine on my system...

Supermicro SC760P4 case w/400W Power supply
Supermicro P4DC6+ Dual Xeon motherboard
- Intel 860 chipset
- Dual Channel SCSI - Adaptec AIC-7899 "Crossbow Ultra160 SCSI ASIC"
- Intel 82559 Network Controller
- AC97' audio
- USB 1.1 Ports(2), and 2 Header connections
- The rest of the reguler I/O is provided

Intel P4 Xeon 1.7 Ghz w/256K/ATC Processor x (2)
Memory - 512Mb ECC Rambus @ 800Mhz x (2) (Total of 1024 MB)

Video - Matrox Parhelia

Displays - Dual Head Configuration

Pri. - Samsung 210T (21.3" TFT) - DVI - Connector A
Sec. - Samsung 210T (21.3" TFT) - DVI - Connector B

Sound - Creative Audigy Platinum
- Live Drive II

HDDs.
- 1 Cheetah X15 36LP @ 36.4 GB(ST336752LW) BOOT
- 2 Seagate Cheetahs 73 LP @ 73.4 Gb ea.(ST373504LW)

CD/CD-RW/DVD

- Plextor PX-40TW (SCSI ID 0)
- Pioneer DVD 305s (SCSI ID 1)
- Plextor CD-RW PW-W1210s (SCSI ID 2)


1394/USB 2.0 - Adaptec Duo-connect AUA 3121 - 3 usb/1 1394 ext. ports - 1 each int.

- HP Officejet D155xi
- Granite Digital FireVue 1394 Bridge hosting a WD1800BB HDD

I played it through on both screens...frame rate seemed smooth, no problems noted. I'm downloading all of them.

cc

[Chucky Cheese]

Coral reef @ 1080p real jerky...dropping alot of frames

[leech]

I'd give it a spin with my 3ghz machine... but that means I'd have to download WM9. Yuck! Oh wait, that'd mean I'd have to go into windows too. Double YUCK!

Leeh

[Ribbit]

I think MPlayer can play WM9 if you install the appropriate codecs. I just can't be bothered to test this out on my box (dual MP1900+, G400Max).