You know, we'd all be safe from the zombies if I HAD MY GODDAMN FLYING CAR ALREADY!
I mean, seriously, Jetsons was on, what, 40 years ago? What happened?
Unless, of course, the zombies can drive, in which case I'm sure we can all agree that we're fucked.
Considering that many people today have trouble today driving safely in two axes, let alone three, I think zombies will be the least of our problems...
VLC also needs an extremely fast computer to play high definition H.264 video without skipping and dropping tons of frames. The CoreAVC codec seems to be the best available for watching hi-def media on typical computers, with CPU time to spare to do other things.
VLC is great and I use it frequently - but it has never had particularly well-optimized codecs.
MattskEE, I don't wish to contradict you outright, for I cannot honestly claim to have tested VLC extensively, but your claim doesn't seem to mesh with my VLC experience at all.
I have successfully run VLC on an old rig I use as a media center, a nine year old AMD 1Ghz with 256MB of ram running XP SP3. I have used it to play back 720P with nary a frame being dropped, off an external hard drive no less. The only time I experienced a performance drop was only after turning on color correction & image sharpening.
Admittedly, I don't recall if the video I played back was specifically H.264, and I don't have access to the machine at the moment to test, but still - your claim that VLC "needs an extremely fast computer to play high definition video" doesn't seem to hold water in light of my own experience with it.
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You know, we'd all be safe from the zombies if I HAD MY GODDAMN FLYING CAR ALREADY!
I mean, seriously, Jetsons was on, what, 40 years ago? What happened?
Unless, of course, the zombies can drive, in which case I'm sure we can all agree that we're fucked.
Considering that many people today have trouble today driving safely in two axes, let alone three, I think zombies will be the least of our problems...
VLC also needs an extremely fast computer to play high definition H.264 video without skipping and dropping tons of frames. The CoreAVC codec seems to be the best available for watching hi-def media on typical computers, with CPU time to spare to do other things.
VLC is great and I use it frequently - but it has never had particularly well-optimized codecs.
MattskEE, I don't wish to contradict you outright, for I cannot honestly claim to have tested VLC extensively, but your claim doesn't seem to mesh with my VLC experience at all. I have successfully run VLC on an old rig I use as a media center, a nine year old AMD 1Ghz with 256MB of ram running XP SP3. I have used it to play back 720P with nary a frame being dropped, off an external hard drive no less. The only time I experienced a performance drop was only after turning on color correction & image sharpening. Admittedly, I don't recall if the video I played back was specifically H.264, and I don't have access to the machine at the moment to test, but still - your claim that VLC "needs an extremely fast computer to play high definition video" doesn't seem to hold water in light of my own experience with it.