Anyone use BBC iPlayer streaming? How fast a CPU for full screen?
I can't find anything helpful on the BBC site about this. What sort of processor speed (and memory or whatever else might affect it) is needed to run BBC iPlayer streaming full screen? Full screen in this case means 1920x1080. -- Chris Green
On 18/02/11 21:04, Chris G wrote:
I can't find anything helpful on the BBC site about this.
What sort of processor speed (and memory or whatever else might affect it) is needed to run BBC iPlayer streaming full screen? Full screen in this case means 1920x1080.
I left this as I don't have a straight answer. See I download my iPlayer content using one of the *cough* various OSS utilities that can do so. I run XBMC on an Acer Revo with the Nvidia ION chipset, apart from the odd bit of HD content that trips it up it generally manages to play anything up to and including 1080p, full screen without drama with a bit of help from VDPAU. However that machine will not manage to play back flash video (iplayer or youtube from within their respective sites) full screen at or over 480p without dropping frames and/or tearing. That probably holds true for anything else based on the Atom.
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:50:36PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 18/02/11 21:04, Chris G wrote:
I can't find anything helpful on the BBC site about this.
What sort of processor speed (and memory or whatever else might affect it) is needed to run BBC iPlayer streaming full screen? Full screen in this case means 1920x1080.
I left this as I don't have a straight answer.
See I download my iPlayer content using one of the *cough* various OSS utilities that can do so.
I run XBMC on an Acer Revo with the Nvidia ION chipset, apart from the odd bit of HD content that trips it up it generally manages to play anything up to and including 1080p, full screen without drama with a bit of help from VDPAU.
However that machine will not manage to play back flash video (iplayer or youtube from within their respective sites) full screen at or over 480p without dropping frames and/or tearing.
That probably holds true for anything else based on the Atom.
Thanks, that at least gives me a 'ball park' idea. The system I've been using is an oldish Athlon 64 based system, I'm not really sure how it rates comoared with more modern processors. -- Chris Green
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