poofyhairguy
Lifer
- Nov 20, 2005
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i personally think the floor would be the 7750. that card seriously uses very low power and can play everything.
Yeah that is a great HTPC card.
i personally think the floor would be the 7750. that card seriously uses very low power and can play everything.
I think it's something along these lines.
I tried playing a Youtube video at 1080 resolution on the J1900 and it played fine, no choppiness or anything.
I then tried watching an episode of Gotham from Hulu and it was choppy.
I'm guessing something in the codecs used between those two sites? DRM?
I don't suppose there's any way to tweak the plugins to function better with Hulu and these other sites?
If the display is set to a lower resolution when you go full screen does it stutter less?
Sorry for the late response.
720 resolution seems to show the same stuttering.
I've dome some experimenting with this. I got a Chromebook, and Acer C720, it seems to do much better at streaming even in 1080 resolution.
I also tried booting the J1900 with an Ubuntu Live USB drive (surprisingly that worked, despite the computer being Windows locked) and I think streaming was better on it in Linux than in Windows. Although the C720 might've performed better. The Ubuntu Live USB drive is only 1GB, so it doesn't have a lot of temporary space to work with, which might be some of the problems.
I'm thinking the issue is something within Windows, something running in the background that's taking up processor space. I'm thinking about trying to bypass the Windows boot lock and install a full blown Linux OS on there and see if that helps.
I wouldn't use Hulu as a gauge for anything. I think some of their encodes at least for PC streaming are flat out broken. I've had episodes in the same series go from smooth as butter to a choppy mess one from the next with not a thing to fix it.
could that have been unnoticable if you were using a faster pc though? what cpu / gpu were you using?