Does hardware effect playback?
- Bushido Philosopher
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Does hardware effect playback?
I'm all new to the whole hardware stuff. My forte is DVD ripping and conversion.
Does the hardware I have affect the playback of videos?....Or more, what hardware involves video? Graphics card, what's that?
Flame me if you will, but at least answer my question, okay? (I feel like a newbie all over again)
Does the hardware I have affect the playback of videos?....Or more, what hardware involves video? Graphics card, what's that?
Flame me if you will, but at least answer my question, okay? (I feel like a newbie all over again)
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- klinky
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Well really it the thing that really affect video speed is usually the CPU.
You could have a really shitty PCI video card on a 200Mhz machine and nothing would play, put that video card in a 600Mhz machine and you'll likely have no problems playing back at all.
AGP really was meant for letting the video card use system memory for video memory(thus the video card can use as much memory as the system has), which is insanely slow so it's not used. Which is why we see cards out with 128MB of ram on them.
AGP does have other benefits, but it really doesn't play much part with your 2D playback.... KTHULU!!! so there...
~klinky
You could have a really shitty PCI video card on a 200Mhz machine and nothing would play, put that video card in a 600Mhz machine and you'll likely have no problems playing back at all.
AGP really was meant for letting the video card use system memory for video memory(thus the video card can use as much memory as the system has), which is insanely slow so it's not used. Which is why we see cards out with 128MB of ram on them.
AGP does have other benefits, but it really doesn't play much part with your 2D playback.... KTHULU!!! so there...
~klinky
- klinky
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ugh... that makes no sense....
I am mainly speaking of DivX. MPEG1 is known to playback fine on even 486s!
DivX is much more intensive. So on a 200Mhz machine you could probably play things like MPEG1, Indeo, CinePack , but not the l33ter MPEG2 or MPEG4 type codecs(DVDs or the many DivX flavors).
~klinky
I am mainly speaking of DivX. MPEG1 is known to playback fine on even 486s!
DivX is much more intensive. So on a 200Mhz machine you could probably play things like MPEG1, Indeo, CinePack , but not the l33ter MPEG2 or MPEG4 type codecs(DVDs or the many DivX flavors).
~klinky
- Melfina
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Of course a AGP card is going to be better than the pci version. How does your hardware effect your video playback?? Well most movie players use direct show. But depending on the video, playback shouldn't go above 30 fps, which in effect is all cpu. If you are having problems with video feedback you might consider buying a $100 on ebay because its bound to be better than what youve got.
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