Ati hd 3450 & amd 3500+

[gigah72]

hi,

does someone use this combination to play HD (Blu-Ray / HD-DVD) video without problems, maybe with PowerDVD or other software, that use hw acceleration (win xp)?

[dat720]

What are you actually asking?

Are you asking if your PC is fast enough to playback HD content?

[gigah72]

What are you actually asking?

Are you asking if your PC is fast enough to playback HD content?

this is a not a "real" pc, but a combination, which i'd like to know, if it works or not.

[dat720]

Fair enough.... I retired my AMD 3500+ many years ago, personally i wouldn't be using it for HD playback, but i guess if the Video card has h264 Acceleration and you set it up properly to utilise On-GPU decoding of the video stream it should be fine for the task.

[CruNcher]

Even a Sempron can playback Full HD with GPU Decoding then your Amd 3500+ should do it, the most important here is the Bus PCI-E (AGP is to slow for Full HD), Harddrive and Memory CPU doesn't play a major role only for Audio Decoding and either Java or IHD Menus but the most intensive stuff is completly offloaded to the GPU like on the fly Decryption, Bitstream Decoding,Scaleing, Deinterlacing, IVTC everything is done on the GPU :P

[Blue_MiSfit]

I've watched a BluRay on a Sempron 3000+ with a measly HD2400 pro. No problems :)

~MiSfit

[gigah72]

thank you guys, that will save some old 3500+ live :)

[dZeus]

Even a Sempron can playback Full HD with GPU Decoding then your Amd 3500+ should do it, the most important here is the Bus PCI-E (AGP is to slow for Full HD), Harddrive and Memory CPU doesn't play a major role only for Audio Decoding and either Java or IHD Menus but the most intensive stuff is completly offloaded to the GPU like on the fly Decryption, Bitstream Decoding,Scaleing, Deinterlacing, IVTC everything is done on the GPU :P

well that's weird! my HD3650 AGP plays 1080p clips (both H264 as well as VC-1) just fine using DXVA, no framedrops whatsoever

[Blue_MiSfit]

Yeah, I'm not sure how accurate that statement was.

I remember reading somewhere that the slower cards on AGP could still decode without problems, but they would run into trouble if asked to do deinterlacing / IVTC. Thankfully, interlacing seems to (mostly) be dead on BluRay discs (I've yet to see any)

~MiSfit

[dat720]

Yeah, I'm not sure how accurate that statement was.

I remember reading somewhere that the slower cards on AGP could still decode without problems, but they would run into trouble if asked to do deinterlacing / IVTC. Thankfully, interlacing seems to (mostly) be dead on BluRay discs (I've yet to see any)

~MiSfit

Thank god for that, deinterlacing a Blu Ray would be murder on the CPU during a encode...