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What kind of data rate can I expect the hardware coded to decode smoothly?

While playing a video on VLC Player, I can choose Tools > Media Information > Statistics Tab Here I can see the bit rate of the video. During action sequence, explosions or sequences involving water or sea, the bit rate shoots up. If I set my notebook computer's power settings to the lowest, these scenes playback poorly. When I replay the scenes with a better CPU scaling, they play back smoothly.

Is there a figure of performance for the hardware codec? Will over-clocking do any good? What do I need to over clock? The CPU or the GPU?

I am wondering if the hardware codec could play a 2h video sizing up to 10GiB?

Lord Loh.
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there's no need to overclock anything. processor is basically used to read your movie from disk or network and feed the data to the GPU, that decodes everything quite smoothly up to 1080p, haven't tried anything larger than that.

the only problem with mpeg2 encoded movies is that you need to shell a few dollars for a license.

mp4 movies are decoded just fine without license, though.

lenik
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