From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B2513800E for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F1CF21C001; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B356421C021 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so2063941bkw.40 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:22:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=bM6x61SXNwSYu/BTOkgt2rpM9X76IUBtScFYLeYmGVk=; b=sIENFyzfrWDPg55rh+KRhGNICZ0Hqo0KeyglTpAhYMPLinZcrg4Y7jvrBcaS+7TTK2 Jh39OhgtlHvh0cWu0BHSN0qhGee1JmMijRr4Kbh7/MoB3z4H0OQxQNy07uvMQ5u2yZYh c/9zHTuEbrxaOAjXtKJhejgVfRC9K8B9qaYiz1gABI9D9EYiepVkPxtQIsizIBfKI18l bzDGkJe/Z5FUEbUeOoenjyomRyRstzjKgEnspAPz7+GJ8SwwSOcl0YgAymcqcEPijT4o f9Lzmp1hpzzWT86tbT25yw+rJpkYm/mnDbZQowN8iNVzpA+qphE/YqBRp1rX68svpctU j1wQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.145.90 with SMTP id c26mr1534696bkv.34.1343420529798; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.12 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:22:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:22:09 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] intel HD graphics 4000 and viewing DVDs From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 6f4ad2b9-69db-472b-a660-9a5770d2f47d X-Archives-Hash: 797e7316ff44dce338cec64c13f525bb On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I am getting a new laptop. (likely dell 6430). > The two graphics options are intel HD 4000 and nvidia NVS 5200M. > Dell is as expected suggesting the 5200M. > > I do not need 3D or fast response. Dell hinted that DVDs might not play > with the intel HD 4000. This seems weird to me as the 4000 is supposed > to be a big improvement over the 3000 and I can't believe dell or others > would have sold laptops that can't play dvds > > Any comments or experiences? My Duron 750MHz was able to decode DVDs in realtime. After that, all you're doing is blitting (or using xv) the frames to the screen. I would be absolutely shocked if the Intel HD 4000 GPU couldn't handle that basic of a 2D acceleration function. Now, DVDs use MPEG2. Blu-Ray uses h.264, which is a much harder beast to decode in realtime. It's possible the HD 4000 GPU can't handle hardware decode of h.264, but I don't know. I've never looked into it. (Software decode of 1080p h.264 on my Phenom 9650 worked somewhat, but highly active scenes would cause frame drops.) -- :wq