NC10 with BROADCOM BCM70012 HD video accelerator

Arcsoft Total Media Theatre playing Transformers 2 trailer at 720P. With the BROADCOM BCM70012 video decoder, CPU utilisation is 15-25%.
Samsung NC10 playing on 24" monitor (1920x1080).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• BROADCOM
• BCM70012
• NC10

[stupidjunk978]

What's the point in watching HD content on such a small screen? Nice hack, though.

[banzai2009web]

Thanks. It's not just for HD... Adobe will update flash to hardware accelerate content next year.

[bridgebolt51]

how about gaming? any improvement?

[edgi100]

as playback of 1080p?

[compsci1010]

Yeah, but try running a game on that thing and it will slow to a crawl. That's the problem with the Broadcom solution, It's a one trick pony and only accelerates video.

[BCHOI77]

10.1 Beta is out. HD not so good, but SD much better. It will work better with card, but should make some improvement without.

[ThisIs2009]

when flash is updated, will I be able to smoothly play YouTube videos in HD? also, will I need the Broadcom card or not?

[igob8a]

Impressive. The NC10 is a great netbook