Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 760 from 2004/2/10
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> A fast G5 will play media on par with 4.x with the GPU transcoding.
No way. OS4 with A-Eon's drivers can decode and play 4k video with almost no CPU load, whereas 2.5-2.7 GHz G5 may struggle with decoding and playing 1080p video (i.e. ΒΌ of 4k's pixel count) in software, depending on codec, profile, bitrate etc.
I was referring to a 2.5 or 2.7 G5 running MorphOS be similar in raw video playback to an x5000 running AmigaOS 4.x with the added on video drivers.
So you are correct, I was playing 1080p on my 2.7 and spoke to a friend running similar media on his x5000 and the results were similar.
