Is it practical to do an HDTV AMV?

[DJ_Izumi]

Well, I'm sitting here looking at PlanetES in HDTV with Space Cowboys on DVD somewhere in the mail and I'll begin working on a new trailer, one done entirely at 720p.

The thing I'm asking myself now is, 'is this a good idea?'. The resources required to playback say, DivX:HD with AC3 audio would be a bit high for some people.

On my Athlon 2500 XP+ decoding of DivX:HD at 720p in The Core Media Player actually uses an average of 60% of the CPU power.

Formats like WMV3 in HD have similar demands though so far any format of HD I've thrown at my smaller, Celeron M 1.3ghz laptop has been decotable while using 50-75% of the CPU. Some users however have slower computers that are quite old.

So my question is, is HDTV an unreasonable distrobution for an AMV still?

[Keeper of Hellfire]

I'm sure there are people out there who appreciate a HDTV AMV. If you have HDTV footage, why not making one? But get some hosting, so that you can offer a lower res version too, for people with slow computers or low bandwith.

[trythil]

So my question is, is HDTV an unreasonable distrobution for an AMV still?

No.

Just do it.

Just use something reasonable, like some H.264 implementation...say, x264. It pays off in quality/size ratio.

CPU usage is high, but if you're going to go to HD anyway, well...fuck 'em.

[gangstaj8]

Can't progress without stepping forward... And the technology is becoming more and more accessible, so why not.

[Willen]

I'd like to see it done. Even if it is unplayable for most people today, it won't be in the future. Plus, if you do it now, you have a leg up on everyone else when it becomes standard practice.

[DJ_Izumi]

So my question is, is HDTV an unreasonable distrobution for an AMV still?

No.

Just do it.

Just use something reasonable, like some H.264 implementation...say, x264. It pays off in quality/size ratio.

CPU usage is high, but if you're going to go to HD anyway, well...fuck 'em.

I really don't want to encode an AMV to a format that even my computer can't playback at full frames. -.-;

[trythil]

So my question is, is HDTV an unreasonable distrobution for an AMV still?

No.

Just do it.

Just use something reasonable, like some H.264 implementation...say, x264. It pays off in quality/size ratio.

CPU usage is high, but if you're going to go to HD anyway, well...fuck 'em.

I really don't want to encode an AMV to a format that even my computer can't playback at full frames. -.-;

I don't see why you'd step forward in one area and still be waist-deep in molasses in another.

Metaphorically speaking.

[sysKin]

Here I was, thinking "sure, using x264 you can do that with perfectly reasonable filesize" and then I read this:

The resources required to playback say, DivX:HD with AC3 audio would be a bit high for some people.

Heh...

[DJ_Izumi]

Here I was, thinking "sure, using x264 you can do that with perfectly reasonable filesize" and then I read this:

The resources required to playback say, DivX:HD with AC3 audio would be a bit high for some people.

Heh...

Well, I'm sorry, I'd like to see boxes of at least 1ghz being able to playback the video. I figure that's a reasonable hardware specification.

[Pwolf]

or you can like use coreavc to decode...


Pwolf