OCWorkbench ASUS Eee PC 900 plays WMVHD 1080p Terminator 2

[eigh12]

1080 ? scheiße ist

[ExtraTerrestrials]

1080 ? WHAT KIND OF BULLSHIT IS THIS ?

[trubin06]

Does anyone knows if Asus EEE comes out with the Intel ATOM CPU (1,6 GHZ HT)???

I think it would be much beter as the old 900MHZ CPU.

[pfmcgc]

because you use Window$...nwb.

[sprintrjm]

you sound like another apple sheep.

I 3x boot my 900ha eee 1.6ghz atom.

windows 7 ---> runs better than xp

Ubuntu 9.04 --> runs better than xp not better than win7

osx 10.5.6 ---> runs pretty darn good, plus everything including updates works.

[pfmcgc]

I hate that fkn apple... T_T

[ocworkbench]

NO problems playing DIVX at all

[sv4rt4lf]

And how about divx movies? are there any troubles with playin' those on your Eee ?

I would like to buy one, but it would have to be smooth with divx/xvid ;)

[valdesjona]

Interesting, but the thing is, if it plays fine at 720 then that's all you need. On a screen as small as an eee's, you'd be hard pressed to see the difference.

[ocworkbench]

There are two variants of the file at WMVHD. You can download 720p version and it will play much smoother.

It doesn't matter if it is a 1080p playing back in a smaller screen, the processor still needs more procesing power to process a 1080p as compared to 720p.

Why am i doing it. It is to stress it to the max.

[Ono888]

Don't understand why you are running 1080p on the 900 as the max resolution is under 720p surely?

[ocworkbench]

Those noise is from the aircon

[mikexilva]

In the end there is a noticeable fan noise.

CPU should be at 100%, unfortunately WMV seems to use less CPU than the beter h.264 codec (even using core AVC, I think it will not play smoothly).

I'm willing to buy one of this machines to use exclusively with Linux. Maybe MPlayer can play standard definition h.264 videos, maybe not, anyway it will be a prety good mobile working machine.

For web browsing, the most complex videos it needs to play are YouTube videos - witch it can handle fine ;)

[tom611]

The 701 handles h.264 standard definition fine, once you downgrade mplayer to get the codec working. The 900 seems to have faster video capabilities, so it should handle it no trouble.

[mrsepek]

you should try the same thing with Debian GNU / Linux running blackbox or openbox with mplayer and compare