2009-05-21, 07:18 PM
Playback is acceptable. On recorded 720p or 1080i MPEG2 shows from the US, I get some interlacing issues. I believe there is a setting to correct that but I haven't bothered. Comskip doesn't work all that great with it either. Sometimes it skips it fine and others it ignores it.
On my laptop, I get tearing, but I think messing with vertical sync will get rid of that. And as was said, you'll need a dual core CPU because there's not much acceleration available except for some NVIDIA cards. My laptop has a single core AMD and it plays 720p ok, but won't work with 1080p. If I fire up MPC HC, that has DXVA and that will play 1080p and 720p (properly encoded) on hardware (CPU at around 10-15%)
On my laptop, I get tearing, but I think messing with vertical sync will get rid of that. And as was said, you'll need a dual core CPU because there's not much acceleration available except for some NVIDIA cards. My laptop has a single core AMD and it plays 720p ok, but won't work with 1080p. If I fire up MPC HC, that has DXVA and that will play 1080p and 720p (properly encoded) on hardware (CPU at around 10-15%)
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