Can anyone share HD video playback experience? Hello,Like what I've read so far but am a little concerned about the CPU performance. Has anyone tried playing a HD video (like a 720p H.264 encoded .mkv file using vlc player)? Curious if it can handle that. Can anyone share HD video playback experience? Hello,Like what I've read so far but am a little concerned about the CPU performance. Has anyone tried playing a HD video (like a 720p... » Read More Can anyone share HD video playback experience? Hello,Like what I've read so far but am a little concerned about the CPU performance. Has anyone tried playing a HD video (like a 720p H.264 encoded .mkv file using vlc player)? Curious if it can handle that. « Show Less
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Plays streaming Netflix movies with no problem (including HDMI hookup feeding a 40" flat panel).
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So 720p on youtube and other engines plays perfectly with no lag. When playing 1080p on youtube, which they now have, seems to lag a bit, but easily fixed. There is a new beta version for flash player 10, it's 10.1. Once downloaded, the computer seems to be a entertainment powerhouse. It takes the consumption off the processor and puts it on the GPU, and then runs so smooth. Use the hdmi port for your 1080p tv and it looks amazing. Hope this helps.
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Hello Alex, Even with slower class 4 SD card still generated fast enough transfer rate (read/write) to play back a HD video. The one I used is SanDisk ultra 64GB class 10 I bought it from amazon, it work just fine. I have noted that way back when I downloaded more than a dozen of free apps from google play store based on rating and testing them to see which one work best and found out that many media (video) player program are in premature development stage, their playback are sluggish and freezing all the time, few others are just ok because they are too simple and lacks of features, but the only one I am interested is the MX player, my search ended and this MX player is the only one I using today on my Samsung s3 cellphone and my new Samsung tab 3 I just bought from amazon. regardless HD or SD the playback is flawlessly with this MX player. I think before you spend more money for faster SD card may be you should download and try this MX player to see if the poor video playback problem solved if not then switch to faster class10 SD memory card. Remember after you download and open the player for the first time, it may prompt to download CODE for the MX player to work properly. Once the player open, select a file you want to play them then go-to setting by select tool/setting/decoder and place check marks on all those check box that uses H/W+ decoder, then you are done and all of your video now should playback smoothly. By the way I had been using this MX player for the past 2 plus years until today. I hope this help and good luck!
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This is dependent on the video card solution you have. The integrated graphics can handle this resolution depending on the games you are playing (newer games, you will need to drop the settings). If you are referring to HD video playback then yes it will be fine. To be honest you are better of with a good independent video card solution (Nvidia or AMD).
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I downloaded it and I could not get it to play either. I have a Samsung UHD TV and I also tried putting the clip on the 4K movie disc pack that I received with the TV. It also would not play on that hard disk through the USB port. However, it will play on my computer. I do have another Youtube mp4 clip that plays through the disk pack in 4k. I moved that clip to the KdLinks and it came back as unsupported format also. So, I agree that the KdLinks will not play 4k video without some kind of an upgrade.
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Anyone have any issues with .avi files that are over 1gb? I can fast forward through it, but when I try to play it normally, it cuts at about the 1hr 50minute mark.Thoughts?
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I'm pretty sure the device supports mp4 videos and also, the video quality either stays the same or gets better. I was very impressed by the videoplay!
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720P looks great. At the higher resolution the playback stutters and the frame rate drops to 24 fps.
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I have been able to play .mov, .avi, .mkv .jpg and mp3 files.So far I haven't found any video files that it won't play.It has played on the TV and any computer connected to my network.
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You can most definitely play movies on it, I convert everything into .avi files though and noticed that it cannot take full HD, like the very large resolutions even if I thought it would but the lower ones like 480 it can take. But that wasn't a problem for me, there's a free software online you can reduce the size of the movies with. I haven't tried mp4 but the box says it would play. Good luck!
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I did play a game through the 360 game system and did not see any lag or skipping of the video. Everything appeared to be normal. (I guess the fps that your talking about is the frames per second.)
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My StarTech capture card does the same thing. Playback is perfect. Guessing Picture and sound could be offset to compensate for dropped frames if necessary.
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This thing is amazing! It has supported every format ive thrown at it...the pic. quality is awesome...however it depends on the quality of the video before download...it does play and show in HD though.
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Video streaming seems to be great, even with HD. That's primarily what we use it form, and no complaints at all for that.
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Thank you David Simon for your in depth analysis. It sucks that the Zi8 doesn't have it's standard definition also set at 60 fps for my liking since I will not be burning any footage to Blu Ray anytime soon and will be burning to DVD. Sure it's great watching 720p on a High Def TV by connecting to HDMI, but eventually the data will be sent to my hardrive for safe keeping and burning a DVD copy to play on a stand alone player is key for me. For sure though, I'll be using the 720p @ 60fps mode in the near future, ( when I get a Blu-Ray writer, or when I get a high end comp that can handle Hi Def video editing) until then SD quality for me lol. Thank you David Simon for your in depth analysis. It sucks that the Zi8 doesn't have it's standard definition also set at 60 fps for my liking since I will not be burning any footage to Blu Ray anytime soon and will be burning to DVD. Sure it's great watching 720p on a High Def TV by connecting to HDMI, but eventually the data will be sent to my hardrive for safe keeping and burning a DVD copy to play on a stand alone player is key for me. For sure though, I'll be using the 720p @ 60fps mode in the near future, ( when I get a Blu-Ray writer, or when I get a high end comp that can handle Hi... » Read More Thank you David Simon for your in depth analysis. It sucks that the Zi8 doesn't have it's standard definition also set at 60 fps for my liking since I will not be burning any footage to Blu Ray anytime soon and will be burning to DVD. Sure it's great watching 720p on a High Def TV by connecting to HDMI, but eventually the data will be sent to my hardrive for safe keeping and burning a DVD copy to play on a stand alone player is key for me. For sure though, I'll be using the 720p @ 60fps mode in the near future, ( when I get a Blu-Ray writer, or when I get a high end comp that can handle Hi Def video editing) until then SD quality for me lol. « Show Less
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I run Linux with VLC which supports only the older MMX style acceleration, not the newer GPU style acceleration, so it needs more CPU power for smooth playback, and this motherboard has the extra CPU horsepower needed to work quite nicely. It plays 1080 very cleanly with no stutter whatsoever at about 50% to 60% CPU utilization under VLC in Linux. In Windows 7 or Windows 8 with the MS Media Player or MPC (Media Player Classic) you should get full GPU acceleration with much lower CPU loads (10% to 15% or even lower). I can't verify those Windows numbers for certain (since am currently only running Linux in this machine) but that's what I see on my Laptop under Win7 with a similar Intel CPU and GPU Chipset. One reason folks like the newer GPU based drivers is that shifting Video decoding to the GPU reduces the CPU load and helps the machine run cooler and use less power during video playback, but with this board that's not as big of concern because the power spec for the Intel 1037U CPU is only 17 Watts TDP, which keeps the power consumption very low during video decoding whether it's being done by the GPU or CPU. So this motherboard should work GREAT in both Linux with CPU based 1080 decoding, and in Windows with GPU based decoding (just as long as you make sure that your hard drive is up to streaming HD video without hicups).
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I have no experience with HD. I would ask your question on an HD forum. There, I bet you would get an answer. Good luck!
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Here is a video that I took. It is recorded at 720P. I didn't want to bother with 1080P because I don't think it would have made that much difference and would just chew through hard drive space faster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz7ZmTy87Vk