Thread: MeeGO will suport 720p playback on N900?
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freemangordon is offline freemangordon
2011-04-29 , 16:07
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Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
Look at these specs from the Windows Media HD page to be able to play 720p on a pc then compare to the N900 and i am sure you will have the answers.

Minimum Configuration
(to play 720p video)

Windows XP
Windows Media Player 9 Series
2.4 GHz processor or equivalent
384 MB of RAM
64 MB video card
DVD drive
1024 x 768 screen resolution
16-bit sound card
Speakers

Optimum Configuration
(to play 1080p video with 5.1 surround sound)

Windows XP
Windows Media Player 9 Series
DirectX 9.0
3.0 GHz processor or equivalent
512 MB of RAM
128 MB video card
DVD drive
1920 x 1440 screen resolution
24-bit 96 kHz multichannel sound card
5.1 surround sound speaker system.

Good luck is all i can say
Yeah, those are requirements if you are using CPU to decode. If you use GPU you don't need such speeds(I was able to watch 1080p on my old Sempron 1.8GHz with 10-15% CPU load). And in case of n900 DSP is GPU equivalent. And n900 DSP is 100% capable to decode 720p (maybe with a little help from ARM side) . We just don't have software. And Meego DE won't have it either. Period.

@damnshock Is NitDroid capable of playing 720p through DSP. If that is the case I can look at codecs to see if it is possible to run them under Maemo.
Last edited by freemangordon; 2011-04-29 at 16:10.