What's a good Blue-Ray/HD-DVD film to stress a HTPC?

Furton · 14 Feb 2008 at 19:17

I've finished building my HTPC around the Abit AN-M2HD motherboard and a Athlon BE-2400 with the LG Blue-Ray/HD combo drive. At the moment it's running at 720p on my 32" JVC LCD and playing Planet Earth on Blue-Ray is perfectly smooth, however I need to make sure that the on-board GFX will take enough off the CPU so I ideally need a film that has a really high bit-rate or a CPU intensive codec to really test it. Any recommendations?

Grimley · 14 Feb 2008 at 19:47

Have you tried outputting the resolution at 1920x1080 & let the telly downscale instead of outputting at near enough the tellys resolution. :confused:

Margaret · 14 Feb 2008 at 20:08

I heard Apocalypto is intensive but not too sure!

Furton · 14 Feb 2008 at 20:09

Grimley said:
Have you tried outputting the resolution at 1920x1080 & let the telly downscale instead of outputting at near enough the tellys resolution.

What would that accomplish?

tomwalker · 14 Feb 2008 at 20:34

Basically you just want a film encoded using AVC/MPEG 4 that also has a high bit rate. Such films would be:

POTC: DMC/AWE
Apocalypto (as mentioned)
Transformers

Hope that helps...

Furton · 14 Feb 2008 at 21:35

tomwalker said:
Basically you just want a film encoded using AVC/MPEG 4 that also has a high bit rate. Such films would be:

POTC: DMC/AWE
Apocalypto (as mentioned)
Transformers

Hope that helps...

Is there any difference between Transformers between HD-DVD or Blue-Ray?

Bigpops · 14 Feb 2008 at 21:45

Furton said:
Is there any difference between Transformers between HD-DVD or Blue-Ray?

It's isn't out on Blu-ray.

Furton · 14 Feb 2008 at 22:28

HD it is then

FrankJH · 15 Feb 2008 at 08:53

Furton said:
Is there any difference between Transformers between HD-DVD or Blue-Ray?

The blu-ray is the cartoon film from the 80's/90''s

Hd-DVD is the live action film released last year

Furton · 15 Feb 2008 at 11:05

FrankJH said:
The blu-ray is the cartoon film from the 80's/90''s

Hd-DVD is the live action film released last year

I was referring more to the BitRate e.t.c but cheers for clearing that up

Grimley · 15 Feb 2008 at 16:47

Furton said:
What would that accomplish?

wouldn't the higher (& native) resolution of blu-ray/HD-DVD put more stress on the pc instead of it 'downscaling' to 720p :confused:

FrankJH · 15 Feb 2008 at 17:25

Furton said:
I was referring more to the BitRate e.t.c but cheers for clearing that up

Is there any point of comparing the bitrate (etc) of two different films?

Vertigo · 16 Feb 2008 at 11:21

Transformers is one of the best encoded x264 films I've seen - sharp as a tack at 1080p

bingham67 · 16 Feb 2008 at 13:21

Vertigo1 said:
Transformers is one of the best encoded x264 films I've seen - sharp as a tack at 1080p

Indeed amazing :eek:

Secret_Window · 16 Feb 2008 at 16:47

Lucky Number Sleven is a very good one to test.

Caged · 16 Feb 2008 at 17:28

FrankJH said:
The blu-ray is the cartoon film from the 80's/90''s

Hd-DVD is the live action film released last year

They released an HD version of a 80s cartoon?