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Shiraz

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what engine does MC use for Netflix? (need hardware acceleration)
« on: March 04, 2011, 10:55:14 pm »
i'm looking for a player that will do hardware acceleration on Netflix movies. Silverlight won't have it til mid year I read.

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JimH

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Re: what engine does MC use for Netflix? (need hardware acceleration)
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2011, 07:49:58 am »
MC uses what Netflix uses, which is Silverlight.  We don't have a choice.

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Re: what engine does MC use for Netflix? (need hardware acceleration)
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2011, 10:22:57 am »
Does Netflix offer 1080p streams?  If not, then it really shouldn't matter unless you have really underpowered hardware.
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Shiraz

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Re: what engine does MC use for Netflix? (need hardware acceleration)
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2011, 09:20:28 pm »
thanks Jim, that's what I thought.

I read that MS will be updating Silverlight to use video hardware acceleration in mid-summer 2011.

indeed, my media PC *is* way underpowered. it's a 1.6 Pentium Mobile processor. It's a low-draw, quiet,  and Shuffle-sized, so it makes a great media PC after I managed to find the *only* AGP 4X (OLD school) graphics card that has hardware acceleration on it. I can play high def movies on the old thing with hardly any CPU use. Saved some landfill and some money. But as soon as I try to play anything even as high as 720p without the acceleration, ie. Netflix, it chokes. I'll wait til summer for that.




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Re: what engine does MC use for Netflix? (need hardware acceleration)
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2011, 07:22:44 am »
The machine you have is doomed to get hiccups with certain software soon I think. Go for a ASRock box sooner than later. They rock :) They do cost a bit, but it's a darn good investment. And it's small, quiet etc. Read more about it here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=61801.0
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Re: what engine does MC use for Netflix? (need hardware acceleration)
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2011, 01:53:46 pm »
A related thread at AVSForum:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1304036

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Shiraz

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Re: what engine does MC use for Netflix? (need hardware acceleration)
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2011, 04:36:11 pm »
thanks guys.
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