I just received my E1505 today and overall things are quite good. No dead pixels. All the ports and wireless works well. Screen is nice (a little light leakage, but nothing big). Computer is quiet. Build quality is okay.
But I have been putting this baby through its paces by trying to play windows media hd clips and quicktime 7.0 hd clips on it and I have not been so impressed, especially when I try to play quicktime clips encoded at 1080p. The 1080p clips are encoded in H.264 format and the ati x1400 supposedly includes hardware acceleration for that format. I also have 7200 rpm 100 gig hard drive, 1 gig of ram, and the 2.0 duo processor. Based on the quicktime specs it seems like my specs "might" allow me to play the 1080p clips at 24 fps. However, the best I can get is around 10 fps and sometimes 7 or 8. The clips will play with relatively little stutter but at this dramatically reduced frame rate.
Windows Media 1080p also seems to play at a fairly reduced frame rate (though the frame rate seems a little better than in quicktime---windows media doesn't report exact frame rates to the user).
Do you think there is an issue with my system or is the x1400 and 2.0 duo core just not enough horsepower to play 1080p at normal frame rates? Any suggestions? Has anyone else tried to play 1080p clips on their system (especially interested in frame rates people are getting with quicktime clips)?
But I have been putting this baby through its paces by trying to play windows media hd clips and quicktime 7.0 hd clips on it and I have not been so impressed, especially when I try to play quicktime clips encoded at 1080p. The 1080p clips are encoded in H.264 format and the ati x1400 supposedly includes hardware acceleration for that format. I also have 7200 rpm 100 gig hard drive, 1 gig of ram, and the 2.0 duo processor. Based on the quicktime specs it seems like my specs "might" allow me to play the 1080p clips at 24 fps. However, the best I can get is around 10 fps and sometimes 7 or 8. The clips will play with relatively little stutter but at this dramatically reduced frame rate.
Windows Media 1080p also seems to play at a fairly reduced frame rate (though the frame rate seems a little better than in quicktime---windows media doesn't report exact frame rates to the user).
Do you think there is an issue with my system or is the x1400 and 2.0 duo core just not enough horsepower to play 1080p at normal frame rates? Any suggestions? Has anyone else tried to play 1080p clips on their system (especially interested in frame rates people are getting with quicktime clips)?
