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Just wondering if there are any good quality 1080P demo videos somewhere for me to enjoy?
My computers are getting a bit old and slow so it would be nice to watch some on PS3 instead.
Or am I forced to kkapture them myself?

http://wurstcaptures.untergrund.net/ as soon as UG wakes up

Or http://wur.st if you are too lazy to remember the complete URL.

They usually do 720p due to quality vs filesize.

Thanks, but I can't seem to find any 1080P movies on the wurst.

1080p means you'll be watching them at 30Hz -- not exactly the best rate to watch demos at IMO.

When we started MC3 three years ago the only choices worth considering were 1080i or 720p. There were odd problems with 1080i at the time so we chose 1280x720p @ 60 for MC3. The smoothness of motion is *totally* worth it.

Working on the production notes two weeks ago, I decided to try to do it in 1080i and found no problems whatsoever... :-/ Full motion, no field dominance issues... these were all problems in 2007 that are gone now. But it's too late to remaster everything in 1080i and besides most people who only have software players hate 1080i anyway.

Capped.TV will be supporting 1080p/720p/input-size selections and downloads sometime soon maybe.

I have some 1080p demos on my ftp, here's some unlabeled. I have others hiding somewhere.

A small help:

1 - Panic Room by Fairlight
2 - Only One Wish by Fairlight
3 - Lifeforce by ASD
4 - Shad3 by Cocoon
5 - Media Error by Fairlight & CNCD & Orange
6 - Track One by Fairlight
7 - 1995 by Kewlers & MFX
8 - Instant Zen by Synesthetics
9 - Chaos Theory by Conspiracy
10 - Size Antimatters by ASD
11 - Final Audition by Plastic
12 - Route 1066 by UKScene All Stars
13 - Atrium by TBC & Loonies
14 - Deities by MFX
15 - Metamorphosis by ASD
16 - Nazca by Cocoon
17 - Aithein by MFX
18 - Electric Kool-Aid by Synesthetics
19 - Nucleophile by Portal Process & TBC
20 - First Days of the Last War by MFX
21 - Parsec by <Name is missing>
22 - Tracie by TBC
23 - Debris by Farbrausch
24 - Kindernoiser by RGBA

Everything made easy now.

Er, wait, maybe those are 720p as well. :(

I leeched a couple already and yeah they're 720p, but still very nice captures, going to grab a few more if you don't mind :)

There are no 1080p movies at wurstcaptures, because 99% of those demos (mostly DOS and old windows stuff) render in native resolutions of 320x240 or similar (some windows demos up to 1024x768). I thus makes absolutely no sense to upscale them to 1080p and encode them to insane file sizes. Due to a tip from hellfire I already upscale most low-res demos using "nearest-neighbour" to twice the resolution most of the time.
Your PS3 should be able to upscale videos pretty easily when playing them back though...

Plus what trixter said. I decide what framerate to use on a case to case base.

1080p50 is starting to get common in Europe and is approved for DVB since september last year or so ... 1080p60 in the US on the other hand, has not been adopted by ATSC because of bandwidth regulations there (and some problems with common 1080p players).

But 1080p is not necessarily tied to max 30fps per-se :-)

(which doesn't mean I don't agree with you that 720p+full motion is better 1080p @ 30hz)

Jcl: Good point, 1080p is NOT tied to 30Hz. I was indeed referring to broadcast standards. Unfortunately, all blu-ray players adhere to this, and he wanted to play on his PS3, so that's why I mentioned it.

My GTX 260 can just barely play back 1080 @ 60p, only a few frameskips. I imagine a decent 5xxx ATI card wouldn't have any problem with it.

GPU shouldn't have much to do with it. The big bottleneck with high-res videos is usually the increased amount of entropy decoding work that comes with the higher data rates, and that's 100% CPU.

Crud, you're right -- PowerDVD maxes out one of my cores while trying. Dangit! Need faster machine but I've already got a 3.2GHz i7...

Sounds like you what you need is a multi-threaded player to max out your other three cores.

Supposedly PowerDVD should decode H.264 in the GPU with this plugin: http://www.cyberlink.com/store/hd-264-pack/buy_en_US.html and any barely modern nVidia card (those with PureVideo, but there are tons of them supporting H.264 decoding on hardware: http://www.nvidia.es/docs/CP/11088/PureVideo_Product_Comparison.pdf). I haven't tested it though.

I did test some 720p H.264 with latest builds of VLC (which allow hardware decoding) and got like 3% CPU load with it, so VLC might do the trick too for 1080p (again, haven't tested).

Will try to make some tests when I'm at home and with some free time :-)

Errr, yes, the plugin says for WMP, but in some other nVidia page I read that it's needed for PowerDVD too... (lost the source)

trixter: You want Purevideo HD (VP3 and up). The GTX260 (still a G92b chip) has a VP2 decoder, that does not accelerate all of the functions... Blame Nvidia for the naming clusterfuck.

I have a mobo with an integrated Geforce 8200 and an old Athlon X2 3600+ and it plays 1080p/25 movie material just fine (~10-15% CPU load). Not sure about higher framerates though...

cuda baby :)

Aren't current GPUs supposed to have 100% complete hardware decoding, starting from nVidia VP2 (GeForce 8x00 Series with x<8) and ATI UVD (Radeon 2x00 Series with x<8)? At least they're marketed this way.

I'd say they do. It's just, nobody really uses it.

For Nvidia it starts with VP3 and that depends what chip the card is using. Read the PDF Jcl linked to.
Not sure about ATI.