I bought an Acer Aspire One 725, with Dual Core AMD C-60 CPU, Radeon HD 6290, and 4 GB of RAM.
By checking the specs of the GPU (UVD3), it seemed reasonable that it should be able to handle all videos, including 1080p h264.
The system requirements for XBMC say that Radeon 5xxx and above are recommended.
In Windows, the netbook has no problems playing HD videos from this website:
http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/
Particularly, monsters and birds.
So I donloaded the http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/XBMCbun...el-AMD.iso and put it on a USB stick.
The netbook boots into XBMC without problems, and I can play all DivX/xvid SD videos (DVD rips) with no problems.
The playback for 720p h264 is barely acceptable.
The playback for 1080p h264 is a slideshow.
If I press "o". I see three CPU's: dcpu, acpu, and vcpu.
vcpu is at 99% the others are below 10%
Checking top, the CPU usage is about 115% (so I am assuming it's running single-threaded).
I am not sure what to do now? What is the problem? Is the Radeon Driver that bad in Linux?
Would an ION-based laptop work better (e.g. HP Mini 311)?
Should I byte the bullet and use XBMC in Windows? (I really don't want to do this for other technical and personal reasons)
Did anyone ever succeed in playing 1080p h264 videos using XBMC and an Radeon HD 62xx GPU?
PS, the 1080p video in question runs flawlessly on Raspberry PI (openelec), and my desktop (Intel i5 750, Radeon HD 5770, Ubuntu 10.04)
By checking the specs of the GPU (UVD3), it seemed reasonable that it should be able to handle all videos, including 1080p h264.
The system requirements for XBMC say that Radeon 5xxx and above are recommended.
In Windows, the netbook has no problems playing HD videos from this website:
http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/
Particularly, monsters and birds.
So I donloaded the http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/XBMCbun...el-AMD.iso and put it on a USB stick.
The netbook boots into XBMC without problems, and I can play all DivX/xvid SD videos (DVD rips) with no problems.
The playback for 720p h264 is barely acceptable.
The playback for 1080p h264 is a slideshow.
If I press "o". I see three CPU's: dcpu, acpu, and vcpu.
vcpu is at 99% the others are below 10%
Checking top, the CPU usage is about 115% (so I am assuming it's running single-threaded).
I am not sure what to do now? What is the problem? Is the Radeon Driver that bad in Linux?
Would an ION-based laptop work better (e.g. HP Mini 311)?
Should I byte the bullet and use XBMC in Windows? (I really don't want to do this for other technical and personal reasons)
Did anyone ever succeed in playing 1080p h264 videos using XBMC and an Radeon HD 62xx GPU?
PS, the 1080p video in question runs flawlessly on Raspberry PI (openelec), and my desktop (Intel i5 750, Radeon HD 5770, Ubuntu 10.04)