HD movie trailers (was "RE: [Pc_Support] RE: HDTV 1080i, 720p, 480p resolutions")

[Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>]

From: Damien McKenna <dmckenna at thelimucompany.com>
> FYI, Apple have released some high-res movie trailers for things like
> Serenity, etc.  The 1920x1080 file for Serenity could only do 13fps on
> my computer (Athlon64/3000) using some player or other I found online.
> Eek!

What is your video card?  What drivers?

I've seen both a 720p at 60fps and 1080i at 30fps without issue (in fact, my 25ms LCD is the bottleneck there ;-).  I used a nVidie GeForce4, then GeForce 6800GT, and MPlayer's nVidia GeForce4 support for acceleration (I know the 6000 series actually has even more features now, but nVidia just detailed them recently).

Now I have 1GB of memory in both systems, at least 128MB on the video cards, and the disk has typically been 4-disc 3Ware ATA RAID-10 (although my current is only a single 7200rpm ATA).

> Unless you're a freak and use a vertical "start" bar, like I do.

Actually, I always wanted a "tabs" on both sides (don't know if you remember my idea about the "Context Virtual" Window Manager (where different panes were used for different things -- some sticky, some full-screen, some multi-window, and then the desktop/background for the session manager).


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