Comments on: HP Mini-Note XP Movie Playback

By: ralph

ralph — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:51:29 +0000

Ive been trying to squeeze decent video playback on both XP and Vista. Success!

Happy to report these as good to go:

1.Divx movies in player (Quicktime and DIVX)
2. VLC player (Videolan)most formats
3. Windows media player playing DIVX movies

Three players all give good playback with no frameloss etc.

Itunes and quicktime still suck for playback even with the the KLite codecs.
the moment. However, the quicktime codec download is put to good use by the other players.

Enjoy the movies!

By: Cruis

Cruis — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:16:36 +0000

Did the 1.2 cpu with 1G RAM is still ok on playing ‘youtube’ ? Thank you.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:01:15 +0000

I’ll have the XP benchmarks up tonight!

By: CWasko36

CWasko36 — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:52:09 +0000

Great video Josh! Very helpful. Are you by chance running some benchmarks under XP (Geekbench, PCMark, etc)? When do you think you will have those to post?

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:54:29 +0000

@Cruis

I have the KX870AT: 1.6Ghz CPU, 120GB 7200RPM HD, 2GB 667Mhz DDR2 RAM, XP

By: Cruis

Cruis — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:48:39 +0000

Would you tell the config of your machine ? tks

By: foo

foo — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:09:53 +0000

This is amazing to watch. I was thinking you could roll a quarter across the keyboard and freak everyone out about the actual screen size.

This is very relevant because everyone at work that has seen my HP2133 has asked about video performance. Great job!

Can you show CPU utilization during video playback? Is it 100% flat?

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:09:04 +0000

@Peach1200

I tried it out and it did play the 1080p trailer slightly better. It still really wasn’t watchable, but I could tell it wasn’t dropping as many frames. The audio was still pretty choppy in either one though.

*EDIT* Actually I had it scaled to fit to screen. At normal size, it played back about the same (1 frame every 4 to 5 seconds) in the regular MPC. In the hardware accelerated MPC it was a lot smoother, but still had dropped frames. The audio gets choppy at around 30 seconds in though, and it got out of sync as well.

By: yyyounes

yyyounes — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:03:28 +0000

Dear Josh,

Thanks a lot for your tests,
it’s awsome
I heard somewhere that the batterylife on XP was verry bad im comparison to Vista, can you confirm this?
Could you maybe make some batterylife tests like they did on :
http://www.blogeee.net/2008/05/05/asustek-eeepc-900-le-test-partie-2-evolutions-genealogie-et-autonomie/

Would be great!!!!
Thanks for al the input

By: Peach1200

Peach1200 — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:41:43 +0000

Thanks again for the great effort you’re putting in all these tests!!

..now, i have another suggestion for you.. let’s see if we can squeeze some more juice from the mini-note!!
As far as I know, hardware acceleration shouldn’t work with the normal version of Media Player Classic.. but it should work with the Media Player Classic Home Cinema edition: http://tibrium.neuf.fr/
It’s free too!

Josh, maybe you could try it and tell us if there’s some other improvement..