Win7, ASRock ION 330 and HD video

**M4GN3T** · September 2nd, 2009, 11:28 AM

Hi guys,

Im looking to buy a ASRock ION 330 its about 250 euro's at my local computer store and i absolutely love the smallness of it. Now i wondered if it will be able to run Win7 + Boxee and smoothly playback HD-video (1080p, 24p, x264 mkv's).

Im reading this stuff about linux and hardware accelaration but i don't want to use linux for a MCE. Since i also gonna install apps on it that are only made for windows (and no, i don't want to use wine).

Lemme know!

p.s. i love the app, its amazing :O

**medicineuk** · September 2nd, 2009, 01:39 PM

It wouldn't run 720 or 1080p videos under windows. The only reason that such a small a cheap machine can run 1080p is because it uses VDPAU which windows does not support.

If you want to run 1080p or 720 on a machine sub 300-400 euro's your going to have to run Linux. Have you considered getting an asrock and installing both Linux and windows and booting between then OS's.

I have an asrock 330 with Linux install and it plays 1080p without any issue but as I said this is not the case with windows 7.

**M4GN3T** · September 2nd, 2009, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by medicineuk

It wouldn't run 720 or 1080p videos under windows. The only reason that such a small a cheap machine can run 1080p is because it uses VDPAU which windows does not support.

If you want to run 1080p or 720 on a machine sub 300-400 euro's your going to have to run Linux. Have you considered getting an asrock and installing both Linux and windows and booting between then OS's.

I have an asrock 330 with Linux install and it plays 1080p without any issue but as I said this is not the case with windows 7.

Well Windows supports VPDAU, but Boxee doesn't i think. Players like VLC and PowerDVD support VPDAU under Windows. Any idea when Boxee is going to support VPDAU for Windows? I know it's still Alpha but it is a feature that must be included, if you ask me though.

**badmoviesandbeer** · September 2nd, 2009, 05:33 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU

VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) is an API designed by NVIDIA for its GeForce 8 series and later GPU hardware, targeted at the X Window System on Unix operating-systems (including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris)

those programs may use something for hardware decoding of video in windows, but it is not vdpau. My guess is dxva, and here's hoping it gets added to boxee/xbmc with the upcoming release.

**M4GN3T** · September 3rd, 2009, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by badmoviesandbeer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU

those programs may use something for hardware decoding of video in windows, but it is not vdpau. My guess is dxva, and here's hoping it gets added to boxee/xbmc with the upcoming release.

I looked it up and it is indeed DXVA, the Winblows version of VDPAU :-)

Can the Boxee team give any information about when DXVA is coming to Boxee?

**medicineuk** · September 6th, 2009, 12:03 PM

DXVA will probably come to XBMC first so have a look through there forums. I would suggest starting here http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53881 it seems like they a member of the Boxee team is working on a DirectX port but then they need to get DXVA working so that could take a considerable amount of time.

Another link worth looking at
http://xbmc.org/donj/2009/07/22/top-...-developments/

**M4GN3T** · September 8th, 2009, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by medicineuk

DXVA will probably come to XBMC first so have a look through there forums. I would suggest starting here http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53881 it seems like they a member of the Boxee team is working on a DirectX port but then they need to get DXVA working so that could take a considerable amount of time.

Another link worth looking at
http://xbmc.org/donj/2009/07/22/top-...-developments/

Thanks man, im gonna keep a eye @ XBMC. Is it better then Boxee or like the same thing?