1080P HD video playback on AAO 150

I've successfully played 1080P HD video on my AAO on battery power with no dropped frame or lagging audio. CPU usage hovered around 85%.
Detailed video specs:
Codec: h.264 avc
Bitrate: 2.5mbps
audio: aac/mp3/ac3 128kbit/s
Framerate: 24/23.975fps
resolution: 1920x1080 (non-interlaced)
container: avi
Anyone have similar results?

Sample video can be downloaded here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NSVNP4WA

 

I can't download the video from that site. It just loads up a blank window.

 

What operating system are you running ?

Same here.

 

I'll upload the video to another site when i come back from school.

 

In my case, even 720p results in stutter and freezing. (8GB Linux, VLC) And this is on the internal screen at 1024x600, so it's downsampling rather than upsampling so far as the resolution goes.

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NSVNP4WA

 

That site seems to have crazy javascript or something. No work.

 

You click the link, you enter the on screen verification code, you wait 45 seconds, and it starts the download.

 

Hmm, well, on my AAO it runs like crap. It shows a moving picture for about the first five seconds (although a little jerky and very blocky), then it freezes on one frame and from that point on it only shows one frame every ten seconds or so. So how did you get it to run on yours? Do I have to download a particular codec or something?

 

I used kang media player + coreavc codec set as external codec foe KMP

 

I'm getting several frames per second with mplayer.

 

Why do you want to play this over compressed 1080p file on a 1024x600 screen, a screen not even capable of showing native 720p? If you want a capable media player buy the WD TV, plays 1920x1080p24 at 30 Mbit/s without any problems. Stay with 480p on the AAO.

 

I use AAO as either a front end media center or a "media center" which is connected to the TV. I also use it to surf the web, word processing..etc on the go.

I was just testing the capabilities of the AAO.
For every day movies, 4-5mbit 720P plays perfectly on the AAO. 480P looks crap on AAO compared to 720P. So i prefer hi-def over standard def movies on the AAO screen.

 

I thought you wanted to run high definition movies on the internal screen. Anyway, buy the WD TV if you want a true HD experience cheap.

 

By definition, the same 1080P hdvideo is "true HD experience". :lol:

WDTV is too expensive for a media center. Building your own HTPC is much cheaper, faster, more capable, than WD TV. WD TV is simply a rip off for someone who's good at building computers.

A simple HTPC capable of playing 1080P hi-def tv broadcast, decode blueray videos, play hi-def vc-1 50mbps videos, will cost about 100-150 and still outperform WDTV.

 

Laugh all you want. Your over compressed 1080p movies @ 2.5 Mbit/s is not true HD.

Please buy and build a HTPC with Blu-ray that can handle 1080p VC-1 @ 50 Mbit/s for under $150. Good luck with that!

 

Laugh all you want. Your over compressed 1080p movies @ 2.5 Mbit/s is not true HD.

Please buy and build a HTPC with Blu-ray that can handle 1080p VC-1 @ 50 Mbit/s for under $150. Good luck with that![/quote]

"True HD" is 1920x1080 progressive scan resolution. My "overly" compressed "true HD" video is still a true hd video.

Pretty much any regular dual core desktop computer currently selling in major box stores can play vc-1 @50mbit/s.

If you want to build your own HTPC, here are the parts:

1GB of ram -10
case + 300 powersupply - 20
outdated /small capacity hdd - 20
amd motherboard wiith on board hd3200 graphics - 60
amd dual core cpu 40

Extra things you might want to include:
BD-ROM - 100-150
DVD-RW - 15-20
hdtv tuner - 25
remote - 10

The base system cost $150 capable of 100+mbit/s 1080P videos
BD movies are availiable for download as soon as they're on BD disks, so BD drives are not really mandatory for watching 1080P BD contents.

If you want a setup up for the HTPC
4 gigs of ram - 40
500gig hdd - 60
amd motherboard with hd3200 onboard graphic card (with 780G series chipset) - 80
phenom x4 9500 - 130
case + powersupply - 100
BD rom- 100
Total: $410

The above quadcore machine can handle 10 BD videos at the same time. You could use the quadcore machine to pump out 4 different 1080P a/v streams though the network to front end media center to each room simultanously for HDTVs.

 

You can call your compressed movies @ 2.5 Mbit/s for HD all you want, 1920x1080 is just a resolution. You need the proper bitrate to call it true HD. But again, 16 year old kids always knows best.

Please build yourself a HTPC with the size of just 10cm and power of the WD TV.

 

Well.. I can't argue with the definition of "True HD" as it's a marketing term and the different people can have different interpretation. The official definition from TV/video standards refers True HD to it's 1920x1080P resolution. But again, WDTV fan's idea of true HD is the video output/supported by WDTV.

And yes...there are many devices which are thinner, smaller than WDTV while having more capabilities. For example: AAO- perfect for a front end HDTV.

 

What the heck is a WDTV anyway? Nevermind... I don't care.

Look, I'm quite sure the graphics are not up for "real" 1080p even if the data throughput is, though I imagine it depends on the codec/player combination, and how much of the decoding can be done in dedicated hardware. Certainly there are better ways to get HD content onto a big screen.

What I need is a convenient way to transcode the 720p video I download into a lower resolution format to fit the AAO's native screen. That would at least allow me to view the files on my Aspire, which I can't now as 720p just stutters.

Can anyone suggest (free or nearly) software for doing this?