1080p movies on your computer

Just wondering what would be the graphical/system requirements other than having a blu ray drive. I have a ripped version of a blu ray movie and its an mkv file which should play in VLC player right? What about graphic card wise? I was watching dexter in 720p online and it seemed that my gpu got some strain on it.

Yes i downloaded the movie but i own the blu ray disc legally. I just wanted to watch it at my friends house.

 

Use MPC with a good codec pack like *this* one. It should use DXVA to decode HD video if you have a decent video card, otherwise MPC is still better at decoding HD content than VLC. HD content requires a lot of bandwidth between devices so that the video stream doesn't get bottlenecked and start looking like a slideshow. Could we get some specs on your system? Minimum req I'd say are going to be something with a C2D, Turion.. With a 9400m/HD3200 or better..

 

My specs are
Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz
Ati HD 3650
4 gb ram
320 gb hard drive 5400 rpm (don't think this matters?)
Resolution of 1280x800

Should that be enough to run the movie smoothly?
Edit: I also noticed that there might be different 1080p versions? I don't know much about this, but my file says "x264" and I'm not sure what that means.

As a side note, i never knew blu ray files are this large. The one i just downloaded is an upward of 8 gb. I wonder how large avatar is gonna be when it comes out, and if that would make my computer explode.

 

Your system should be more than enough. I was working at Fry's Electronics when some of the first mainstream desktop Blu-Ray drives from Sony and LG were arriving. I remember both brands requiring 256 MB of video memory and something like a Geforce 6200 GPU. Personally I would think any GPU with at least a 1.2 or 1.3 MPixel ROP fillrate should have no problem, assuming the CPU is up to the task of decoding, which would be any high end single core or low end dual core.

 

That's more than enough. HD content will even run on a 1.8Ghz processor, so you'll be golden.

 

For some reason Quantum of Solace lagged on my old T9800 (2.93 GHz) and ATI 4670 ...

 

It should not have, probably was a bad file. 3ghz dual core can eat 1080p with no problems or any assistance from the GPU. You could have had some poor codec conflict or settings to cause problems as well.

 

CCCP . Has every codecs you need.

 

+1 K-lite has too much bloat in it that the average user would not ever touch.

Even MPC-HC by itself might be sufficient.

 

If it's improperly encoded (or just has options set that the drivers/hardware can't handle) the GPU may not have been able to accelerate it for whatever reason. The video streams that a GPU can accelerate are relatively limited, even more so on ATI than on NVidia.

Depends entirely on the encoding and the bitrate. 1080p can mean a lot of different things, believe it or not.

 

Yeah I know, but even pure blueray will run without a hitch @ 3ghz, if you ever find a HD movie encoded at a higher bitrate than the original blueray disk then it would fall under the "bad file" category I just mentioned because somebody had no clue what they were doing.

 

afaik its harder to deocde/playback videos in container formats such as mkv's and avchd's.
the computer has to decode the format and play it back at the specified bitrate. that takes more work than playing a bd which has uncompressed data.
this makes the type of codec pack your using very important. the mre efficient it is the better the viewing experience for those container formats.
as mentioned above, cccp is probably the best out there right now.

 

BD video is also compressed and has a certain bitrate.

Uncompressed video could be 100MB/s+

 

ah yes bd is also a compressed format and uses either mp2 and mp4 compression formats
most player have built in codecs for these.
and yes uncompressed videos would be more like 300gig ( not 100mb).
so extremely high bitrates could stress a computer but afaik there arent any bd's out there using a bitrate that will stress a 2.66 core2due or higher, especially with capable software that uses multiple threads and gpu support.
i suggest either powerdvd9 ultra or arcsoft media theatre 3 for bd playback. they are the best out there imho.

 

I wrote one-hundred-megabytes-per-second.

I think you're mixing up containers and codecs here, or minor typo.

MPC-HC, a free alternative is also getting there.


Well, bottom line is BD video is generally less CPU intensive.