What can GMA 3150, atom D425, NM10 do?

dE_logics · Veteran Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 1980 Location: $TERM

Very old hardware, but I was wondering how much can they take under Linux when it comes to video playback.

So --

CPU Atom D425
Chipset NM10 with GMA 3150 graphics.

So what's the maximum resolution they can take? 720p (using xv)?
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pigeon768 · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 667

It's going to be CPU limited. You'll be able to do low bitrate mpeg4 (xvid or ffmpeg4) at 720p, but will not be able to do h.264 at 720p.

I believe the D425 is dual core with hyperthreading? Maybe you'll be able to handle more than that with multithreading. When I still used my nm10 netbook, multithreaded decoding wasn't supported in mplayer.
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dE_logics · Veteran Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 1980 Location: $TERM

dE_logics · Veteran Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 1980 Location: $TERM

Say, if you have that netbook, I'll be glad if you try and report.

Thanks.
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Gusar · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:54 am Post subject:

Because the processor has HT, you can play 720p video in h264 format, provided the bitrate isn't too high. The "scene" uses 3MBit/s for 720p, the processor can handle that. Just make sure the player is configured to use two threads for video decoding (mplayer2 does it automatically, for mplayer use '-lavdopts threads=2', no idea about other players, they possibly do it automatically too).

dE_logics · Veteran Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 1980 Location: $TERM

Also, were you using an x86 OS?
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Gusar · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:16 am Post subject:

My Atom (N270) is 32bit, so yes, an x86 OS. Your D425 is 64bit, so you could make use of that, should give you about 10% better performance with decoding. Though even with that you won't be able to handle more than 720p.