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23rd July 2008, 20:27 | #1 | Link |
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DivX and Atom
It appears that Intel's new Atom Processor is going to be a real hit. It is designed into over 20 netbooks and maybe 100s of UMPCs and many more devices.
If you are not familiar with the Intel Atom processor it is very low cost low power processor; from Intel. Looking at the performance at Tom's Hardware ( http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...pu,1947-2.html ) it appears that has enough processing power to do DivX Decoding in normal 640 or 720 width but not nearly enough processing power to do H264 decoding. Since Intel claims they are going to sell 100 Million Atom's by the end of the year I wanted to know what people's thoughts are when it comes to these devices and DivX. > Will these Atom Devices be the Multimedia Player of choice in the future? > Will Intel Atom extend the life of DivX/XviD? > Is H264 really needed in these type of devices. Last edited by weaver4; 23rd July 2008 at 20:29. |
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Atom has about 30% more processing power than a 1.3G Via C7 and about 60%-70% the processing power of the lowest Celeron. A 1.3G Via C7 is very Marginal for DivX now, loosing frames occasionally when running MPC in WinXP; in Linux I had worst results using Totem and GStreamer.
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I did the same video at the same resolution 640x272 in both DivX and WMV-7 and the amount of processing power to decode and display the movie was almost identical; WMV was slightly more. So you are right, it is not less, but it is not much more either. WVC1 or H264 would require much more.
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WMV7 is (I think?) MSMPEG-4v1--which not surprisingly is quite similar to Xvid/DivX. |
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I suppose it could provide some service in small portable PC notebook type devices, communication devices, and entertainment devices where it could produce modestly higher quality content while extending battery life. I doubt that I will own one, but who knows.
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But doesn't WMV9 have three profiles; Simple, Main and Advanced that all take different amount of processing power to Decode? I guess it is safe to say that if your hardware can decode WMV9 Main-Medium (in real time) does not mean it can decode WMV9 Advanced-L1; even though both of them are 10Mbits/s 720x480@30.
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Main and Advanced aren't that different, and it isn't like AVC where there's CABAC and CAVLC--WMV doesn't even use arithmetic coding. |
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I make test with x264 encoding. Atom N270 have 75% of the powerfull of Pentium M 1.6 Ghz. Atom N270 have MMX, MMX2, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and HT fonctionality. It's a really good CPU for only 2 watts TDP. Atom can play 720p encoding with coreAVC but not 1080p. Be carefull 1080p WMV9 encoding are certainely not 1920*1080 but 1440*1080 encoding.
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10W TDP with 4 cores... Intel must be loving this chip.
Single core improvements are still to come though, and they're still to drop their hat in the performance graphics card ring!
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