2008-08-18, 13:57
Hmm.. I was wondering about these a few weeks back when they were released, but wanted to wait for someone to try it with XBMC. 720 hey ? interesting...
troutbum Wrote:my only question is the atom 1.6 GHz processor up to 720p?http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=35179
Gamester17 Wrote:I pretty sure that will not be able to play any 720p H.264 videos at all as XBMC will not be able to off-load any video decoding to the GPU so the CPU will that the full load of that, see:
http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f22/i...nds-44465/Quote:The Atom 230 (1.6Ghz) is as fast/slow in SuperPi as:
- Pentium 4 Wilmetta @ 2125Mhz
- Pentium 3 @ 1517Mhz
- Athlon Tbird @ 1616Mhz
- Pentium M 745 @ 1804Mhz
- Pentium 4 Nortwood @ 2.4Ghz
- Duron 600@1069Mhz
The SuperPi 32M result is even worse, as it's not even able to match Pentium 3 1Ghz CPU ( http://hwbot.org/listResults.do?cpuModel...&limit=100 )
molesza Wrote:Are you getting 720p on the 901?
xbs08 Wrote:"Without hardware decode assist for any of the HD video codecs the Eee Box’s Atom processor is left to do all decoding on its own, and unfortunately it’s not fast enough to decode any high bitrate HD video. In our testing we found that the 1.6GHz Atom was fast enough to decode a 4.5Mbps 720p H.264 stream at around 90% CPU utilization; anything more complex and we started seeing dropped frames. 1080p HD movies are completely out of the question. The CPU is fast enough to play 720p XviD/DivX however."
anandtech.com
bond007taz Wrote:I lll have to play to see if this is true - it didnt seem laggy when I played the 720 content but that is why i put in a SSD and some memory, faster access between hard drive and RAM.
as for audio, i didnt know it has special line out jack, i was gonna get a USB 5.1 audio and see how that worked.
My main reason for using the eeebox is reduce the number of moving parts that is one of the reasons i put in the SSD. I only play network items and nothing is stored locally.
bond007taz Wrote:when I played the 720 content but that is why i put in a SSD and some memory, faster access between hard drive and RAM.correct me if I am wrong, but the extra ram and SSD drive are not really the bottleneck it is going to be the CPU...upgrading them will not make a significant difference in CPU throughput
troutbum Wrote:...when mine arrives and I get some time I will post results @ various bitrates. might be a week or two so if someone else has one, it would be interesting to step up the bit rates until playback faltered....
lepreshawn Wrote:In this Anandtech review, there is mention that the chipset on Eee box does not support hardware H.264/MPEG-2/VC1 decode acceleration, while Poulsbo (the mobile Atom chipset) does it.
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc...i=3321&p=4
Does that mean that an EEE PC 900 would perform better than the EEE Box?