Comments on: The Little PCIe Card that Could http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2009/11/16/the-little-pcie-card-that-could/ Blog, News & Reviews Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:31:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Macklin http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2009/11/16/the-little-pcie-card-that-could/comment-page-1/#comment-26522 Paul Macklin Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:37:10 +0000 http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/?p=617#comment-26522 Working okayish in my HP Mini 2010. Youtube accelerates pretty well at 480p and okay at 720p embedded and fullscreen. Streaming BBC iplayer works very well, both windowed and fullscreen. However, the BBC desktop player, which downloads the entire episode and plays it locally with some DRM, is a slideshow. From what I've seen, it's very sensitive to what version of flash. As I understand it, newer versions of flash disable hardware acceleration if they detect interleaving (or some sort of related flag that indicates the mere potential for mixed progressive/interleaving), and evidently it's clashing with the way most of these BBC episodes are encoded. From what I can tell, the BBC iPlayer desktop program isn't using the hardware whatsoever, except for the initial "logo" screens. I haven't had a chance to try a hacked version of Flash to ignore the flag check. Acceleration of xvid seems to work pretty well. Alas, I haven't had a chance to benchmark with and without the card, but CPU use seems pretty minimal, including during PPT with embedded xvid. But I'd have to check it more carefully to be certain that it's being hardware encoded. Working okayish in my HP Mini 2010. Youtube accelerates pretty well at 480p and okay at 720p embedded and fullscreen.

Streaming BBC iplayer works very well, both windowed and fullscreen. However, the BBC desktop player, which downloads the entire episode and plays it locally with some DRM, is a slideshow. From what I’ve seen, it’s very sensitive to what version of flash. As I understand it, newer versions of flash disable hardware acceleration if they detect interleaving (or some sort of related flag that indicates the mere potential for mixed progressive/interleaving), and evidently it’s clashing with the way most of these BBC episodes are encoded. From what I can tell, the BBC iPlayer desktop program isn’t using the hardware whatsoever, except for the initial “logo” screens.

I haven’t had a chance to try a hacked version of Flash to ignore the flag check.

Acceleration of xvid seems to work pretty well. Alas, I haven’t had a chance to benchmark with and without the card, but CPU use seems pretty minimal, including during PPT with embedded xvid. But I’d have to check it more carefully to be certain that it’s being hardware encoded.

]]> By: tony f. http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2009/11/16/the-little-pcie-card-that-could/comment-page-1/#comment-25595 tony f. Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:53:35 +0000 http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/?p=617#comment-25595 There are a number of known issues with shipping when using Google Checkout, so I thought the additional details you provided might be useful to them. As you suggested, it is on Google's end and there's nothing we can do about it. There are a number of known issues with shipping when using Google Checkout, so I thought the additional details you provided might be useful to them. As you suggested, it is on Google’s end and there’s nothing we can do about it.

]]> By: Ulf Axelsson http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2009/11/16/the-little-pcie-card-that-could/comment-page-1/#comment-25161 Ulf Axelsson Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:52:25 +0000 http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/?p=617#comment-25161 Oh, the shipping problem is on Google:s side as far as I can tell. /Ulf Oh, the shipping problem is on Google:s side as far as I can tell.

/Ulf

]]> By: tony f. http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2009/11/16/the-little-pcie-card-that-could/comment-page-1/#comment-25159 tony f. Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:11:40 +0000 http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/?p=617#comment-25159 Thanks for the update, Ulf! Glad you're happy with it. I'll pass the shipping info on to our software engineers. Thanks for the update, Ulf! Glad you’re happy with it.

I’ll pass the shipping info on to our software engineers.

]]> By: Ulf Axelsson http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2009/11/16/the-little-pcie-card-that-could/comment-page-1/#comment-24790 Ulf Axelsson Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:17:35 +0000 http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/?p=617#comment-24790 After installing (rather easy since I already knew how to crack the shell on the 210) video performance is up. For a prescaled (to 1024x600) H.264 movie (SG-1 S1 Ep1-3) I now have slightly less than 20% cpu used in ArcTMT, more or less 20% in WMP, sort of 30% in VLC and around 40% in MPCHC. As far as I can remember none were below 60% before with MPCHC stuttering somewhat. Before Flash 360p (Google IO 2010) were watchable unscaled, now up to and including 720p works in an unscaled youtube window and up to 480p scaled to full screen. That flash control seems to be not so good at scaling. All things considered, a big improvement. /Ulf After installing (rather easy since I already knew how to crack the shell on the 210) video performance is up.

For a prescaled (to 1024×600) H.264 movie (SG-1 S1 Ep1-3) I now have slightly less than 20% cpu used in ArcTMT, more or less 20% in WMP, sort of 30% in VLC and around 40% in MPCHC. As far as I can remember none were below 60% before with MPCHC stuttering somewhat.

Before Flash 360p (Google IO 2010) were watchable unscaled, now up to and including 720p works in an unscaled youtube window and up to 480p scaled to full screen. That flash control seems to be not so good at scaling.

All things considered, a big improvement.

/Ulf

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