Thread: HD content + a 7inch Liliput = ?

on the seven inch screen its not about looking pretty, its about the CPU usuage.

Sure you can play the videos off a regular Intel Graphics chip but performance will be greatly reduced.

The image is so compressed in size you wont notice a difference (at least in my experience)

I have a ZOTAC Ion Dual Core Atom and notice a huge difference in speed and performance

can u please specify exactly what u r trying to say ?

let me rephrase for your ease...
1) watching HD content on a low res screen, does it compress so much that it actually looks ugly??
2) i assume u can pretty easily playback HD content (remember its just talking about 720p, NOT 1080p ) on the ION, but will playback on the intel chip be stuttery and look like a slide show? - i promise not to run any background applications

It's been awhile since I setup the video on my car PC with NVIDIA, but if I recall, after you create the custom resolution with their utility, to select it, I think I had to go to the Windows display settings, then to advanced, then click the "list all modes" button, and select it from there.

Its all about CPU verse GPU usage.....

Graphics chips come with special optimizations that allow them to do graphics rendering that would be very taxing for a CPU to perform. For standard video playback this has already been implemented for quite a while requiring only container decoding to be done by the CPU. Newer video formats like h.264 (blurays, hd tv recordings and their associated rips) require about 8-10x the cpu usage to decode compared to regular video due to the high compression and advanced algorithms used. Now it is possible to transcode video from 1080p to 720p or even 480p which would be perfectly optimized for that display but the only difference will be file size. Especially in an underpowered CPU such as that, your talking about the difference between 720p playback eating your entire cpu or 720p playback using single digit CPU usage and being able to multi-task.

Hope that helps....

I have an Acer Revo with the Nvidia Ion in my Kia hooked up to a transflective Liliput 7". I also have a Usb Blu-Ray drive.

The Blu-Ray movies do look better than the Dvd's. Sharper and less "blurred". But most people would never notice the difference. I have been installing 1080p projectors for the last 5-6 years and consider myself a videophile so I notice these things

Originally Posted by hailrazer

I have an Acer Revo with the Nvidia Ion in my Kia hooked up to a transflective Liliput 7". I also have a Usb Blu-Ray drive.

The Blu-Ray movies do look better than the Dvd's. Sharper and less "blurred". But most people would never notice the difference. I have been installing 1080p projectors for the last 5-6 years and consider myself a videophile so I notice these things

That has absolutely nothing to do with display resolution though, it has to do with the higher quality encoding and the better quality source. Idc how good of a videophile you are, you wont be able to tell the difference between a 720p movie on a 480p screen and a 1080p movie on a 480p screen, its just a matter of when the resizing occurs.

Originally Posted by justchat_1

That has absolutely nothing to do with display resolution though, it has to do with the higher quality encoding and the better quality source. Idc how good of a videophile you are, you wont be able to tell the difference between a 720p movie on a 480p screen and a 1080p movie on a 480p screen, its just a matter of when the resizing occurs.

I never said ANYTHING about seeing the difference in 720p and 1080p on a 480p screen now did I ?

I said that Blu-ray looks better on the 7" Liliput screen than DVD. Which was in answer to this question :

also does HD content still look pretty on such a low res screen?

Well it doesn't matter if the video content is HD or not, the screens resolution is 800 x 480 and thats all the pixels you are gonna get on the screen.

A DVD is gennerally 720x480 for widescreen, and 720p is 1360x720. Meaning that both are limited at 800 x 480 anyway, so that whole thing is overkill. Granted a DVD is slightly lower than the native res, you won't notice the difference in quality at such a small screen size.

Yes I know all of that. And we can debate this all day long. But there is one simple fact. When I put in a Transformers DVD and a Transformers BluRay and there is a noticeable difference. Its sharper and more detail. That's real life results with real life hardware.