HD movies

check your cpu using rate in task manager.
if your grafic card supports HD-encode the cpu using rate must be below 20%.
 
oh~I just noticed your hardware setup...
well X3100 doesnt support HD-decode so that your cpu using rate is gonna be quite high.
 
Of course you can play it, its just the processing will be done mostly by the CPU, but it will still run. I don't see the point of spending a fortune on immature technology, its better to wait until either we have a victor in the battle between Blu ray and HD DVD or affordable combo drives come out.
 
Not much, it just means you can't encode in the background or something. If your computer is not doing anything else but playing that HD video there is not much a difference from a system which has a graphics that does have HD-decode like my 512MB G92 8800GTS. Shifting the load from your CPU just enables you to free up your CPU to do something else, purely a multi tasking feature.
 
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elitehacker said:
If your computer is not doing anything else but playing that HD video there is not much a difference from a system which has a graphics that does have HD-decode like my 512MB G92 8800GTS. QUOTE]

and then an msn message is gonna drive your computer no response for a while...:(
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I don't think that will happen. Your CPU can most likely take the extra process power needed to receive a MSN message. In the slight chance that your CPU is working flat out at 100% to output that HD video, then mostly it will drop a few frames to accomodate the new MSN message.
 
What specialty? As if they would make a CPU that specialise in HD-decode =_=. pretty much any processor can do it, it just the difference between whether it breaks a sweat or not outputting it that's all. A multi-core CPU is only good when your program is coded to utilise the extra cores, otherwise there would be no difference.
 
My 5 year + year old 1.8ghz althon plays HD dvds and movies without a sweat, it's not a big deal. It's just a decoding process, why would it be any harder than anything else? And I very much doubt an HD DVD player or tv is going to have anything like the power of that old computer.
 
You can't really compare the processing power of a TV to a computer, its like comparing the gaming power of the Xbox 360 to the PC. PC's runs operating systems that are very resourse intensive, epecially the windows operating system, this is very obvious when I tried to output video using a P3 800Mhz computer, under Windows 98 I can not achieve smooth video output while booting into Linux showed perfect flawless smooth motion. Processing power is not the main thing, it is how efficiently that power is used that is important. If there is a specially decoder in the TV or HD DVD Player that is optimised to output HD DVD, then it might smoke the computer, because it will be the only task it can perform.
 
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