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just wanted to ask about Hardware-assisted 720p video playback on an Intel Atom D510 machine, running on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. When I use Boxee with Hardware Assisted Decoding activated, I am able to play 720p videos -- whether on the local harddisk drive or on a remote server, through LAN. However when I play the same 720p videos through Totem or through Gnome MPlayer, the resulting playback suffers from stuttering and slideshow-like slowdowns. Would it be possible to make 720p video playback on Totem and Gnome MPlayer more smooth given that my machine's processor in the Intel Atom D510? If yes, how? Boxee seems to manage, so I assume it should also be possible to tweak Totem and/or Gnome MPlayer to be able to do the same.

As an added note, I the machine's OS is Linux Mint 8. Installed RAM is 2GB.

quack quixote
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techtechmo
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According to the table of Intel integrated graphics capabilities, your hardware is not capable of HD video decoding. Therefore the atom CPU is doing all the work in software. The atom chips are simply not powerful enough to the HD decoding.

The nvidia Ion platform does do HD decoding in hardware. That is why it is a popular home theater solution.

The Broadcom HD video decoders are inexpensive and are supposed to work well on Linux. Can you add one to your system?

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