TZ = Performance Let down?

I purchased a TZ-150 from the sony store. I immediately upgrade the RAM and did a fresh install.

The screen is so gorgeous that I thought I would try out a quicktime HD trailer. To my surprise it could not keep up with 720P and 1080P is embarrassing.

Am I asking too much for this little machine to play a 720P file?

(The trailer I tried was for The Golden Compass)

If anyone else can test, that would be great.

 

Sorry can't help ya, my TZ is coming in 20 days.

Maybe other players or formats give better perfomance?

VLC player plays quicktime too.

 

Open the trailer in either VLC player or Media Player Classic; both are more efficient at playing back HD video in my own experience.

The other thing to consider is that your TZ uses an integrated card...all dedicated video cards help to process HD video since it is so complex to sort out and playback compared to old SDTV-quality clips. Therefore, it's quite reasonable that your TZ might lag.

 

I can play QT HD videos with no problems at all. Your HDD wasn't thrashing away with Vista crap (Superfetch / Readyboost) was it?

I notice that you have the 1.06GHz...maybe that 140MHz makes a difference?

 

Did you install vista or did you go the XP route? Also since you did a fresh install are you sure you installed all the correct (updated) drivers?

Now since I never got to test playing a 1080 HD movie on my Vaio TZ before getting a ThinkPad X61, I can't test it for you. Mine which was the 1.2 GHz/SSD combination ran Vista Aero well and played normal DVDs without any problems either. But HD movies I never tried.

But don't forget that yours come with the 1.06 GHz processor and the 4200 RPM harddrive which together with Vista Aero and the wrong media player just might cause some performance let downs. I'm guessing here. In any case the GMA 950 graphics chip is fairly dated - so I don't know if that together with the low end configuration of the TZ series is causing the issue.

I hope someone else with the SAME configuration can do a test for you.

 

also, what specs? you have 4200, 5400, 7200rpm drives or an SSD?
from your sig, it looks like you may have teh 4200rpm since its 100GB. Is it possible that a slow hard drive coupled with vista can cause these issues? I have no problem playing HD content through media player.

 

Yes, he has a 4200rpm hard drive. Its either 4200rpm hard drive or SSD outside Japan unfortunately.

 

See the post below:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=153637

 

I used all the updated drivers from the sony site, and yes I do have the 4200rpm HD.

Readyboost is not on....but what is superfetch?

I am testing VLC now.

EDIT: Found how to disable superfetch..Not sure if I want to, can I turn it back on?

 

VLC plays it fine....but the picture is much softer.

 

Superfetch off makes no difference

 

Can someone who has TZ open the Device Manager and click to Network Adapters and tell me what it writes?

I have only these two: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965 AGN, Marvell Yukon Gigabit.
I thought there was a 6TO4 adapter but i don't see it anymore.

 

Install XP, i've mentioned quite a few times in other threads that vista can't handle HD video very well especially connected to an external higher resolution monitor or outputing dual screen.

XP flies with TZ and will work much better with your 4200rpm drive.


EDIT: just played the 720p trailer on my TZ with xp and it plays fine with the quicktime player, even with the cpu throttled down to 800 mhz. 1080p is a bit slow at 800mhz though, but still very watchable. At 1.20 ghz 1080p runs great.

 

do you have ssd?

 

No, I have the 5400 rpm hdd, which is only available in the japanese version.

 

Hmm...I don't know what to do.

I tried a 1080P in vlc and that won't even play.

 

Download the latest gma 950 video driver here and install it. Download Quicktime Alternative, use its browser plug-in to download a 1080p trailer from Apple's website, and play it with Media Player Classic.

 

Try turning off windows aero and running it in vista basic graphics mode.

Your problem isn't because of the 4200 rpm hd, its because vista aero is such a graphics resource hog.

 

install linux maybe?

 

Some guys on the Ubuntu forums are attempting to get their TZ working under Linux: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=514292

 

Install XP.

 

Thanks for this tip....it works for 1080P .mkv files but not quicktime. I am ok with that!

 

Forgive me for my ignorance, the TZ has a 720P screen, seems that watching 1080P videos on it is useless, unless the 720P versions aren't available.

 

I have the gom media player and it plays hd video fine. I was actually surprised I was able to take video with my hd video camera (1080i) and edit it on my FZ. The performance on this machine is surprisingly adequate.

 

Yes, it would be useless on the TZ. I guess the OP wants to connect to an external screen.

I'd like to connect TZ to my HDTV so I hope the VGA output signal is of high quality.

 

Has anyone succeeded in getting full screen 1080p playback of quicktime movies to work without stuttering?

I'm using the CCCP ( http://www.cccp-project.net/) codec pack but I get pretty bad stuttering on 1080p movies. I did notice that the codec doesn't really properly use two cores. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

Have you tried quicktime alternative? It includes coreavc which helps with avc encoded files which I think quicktime uses. Coreavc codec uses two cores if I'm not mistaken.

It really helped my play 720p files but kind of lacks on 1080p files because of my core solo cpu on the txn.

 

1080p is stuffer free under xp.

 

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I'm using the apple quicktime player..

 

1080P was for outputting to an external monitor.

720P plays fine and looks beautiful on the screen. I may try installing XP, I think I have an unused license around here