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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: xen-uno on March 25, 2003, 01:47:41 pm
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These are good tests for MC9's playback capabilities...Animatrix (http://www.intothematrix.com/).
DL the PC version (Apple MOV's...large size around 150 MB).
They are 8 minute shorts based on The Matrix. Very cool animation. On my 700 MHz PIII (w/ NVidia TNT2 vid card) I get some frame drops and video stuttering (w/ MC9 B133). Sound playback is flawless, though. Curious what kind of results others are getting.
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Testing SW playback of low rez sources is for wimps :P if you want to see what is doable try playback of HD 1080i clips...
http://www.heuris.com/MPEGProducts/HD_samples/index.htm
Some of these are especially taxing as they are high bitrate clips... Probably much higher than any OTA HD and comparable with DTheater, so I am informed...
Theres also a bunch of HD film trailers and commercials that appear copyright free here... They change every once in a while it seems.. After the SuperBowl there were 8 or 10 files...
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~balazer/hd_ads/
And some stuff posted (of questionable legality it seems to me as it is taken from Korean TV but...) here
http://www.dvico.com/hdtv/download.asp
Thanks for the heads up though... I forgot about the second episode... Downloading the big one now..