what kind of computer specs do you have to have to play x264

[Nardz]

what kind of computer specs do you have to have to play x264 i hear you have to have some serious cpu power and i pretty kicken video card. is this true?

[mr. nails]

midrange cpu and gpu are just fine.

[lynx]

X264 is just the library required to encode/decode H264 streams.

H264 is only a small step up from H263, and my phone will encode and decode H263.

H263 is used for MMS because of its high compression rates. Once it has matured sufficiently H264 will probably replace it. It is already being developed by Mobile ASL (http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/MobileASL/) for that very purpose.

[chip19]

Well, I can tell you that my iBook chokes on H264 videos while it can play standard Quicktime movies just fine. The specs are 700mhz G3, 8MB video, 640MB Ram. The computer is obviously on the lower end by today's standards, but it can play normal videos fine. H264 is a problem though, so I guess decompressing it is more complex than your standard codec.

[Nardz]

Ok so here are my computer specs.
-Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz
-1.00GB of Ram
-Video Card ATI 9550 Radeon with 256mb of ram


So H264 should play fine correct? But every time I try the video is very choppy and audio does not match. So if it’s not my computer it must be a codec problem correct? but I can’t for the life of me figure out what is screwing everything up I have tried multiple combinations of codec’s and am right now using the latest K-lite pack because I have read that it’s supposed to work but I’m still experiencing the same problem. Any suggestions on how I should set my codec’s up? What works for you guys? Thanks so much guys for helping me out with this :)

[Virtualbody1234]

It would depend on what resolution:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/recommendations.html

[Nardz]

It would depend on what resolution:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/recommendations.html

oh sweet yea that was it i was trying to play a 1080i video when i switched to 720p it solved all my problems thanx so much dudes!

[Virtualbody1234]

It would depend on what resolution:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/recommendations.html

oh sweet yea that was it i was trying to play a 1080i video when i switched to 720p it solved all my problems thanx so much dudes!

No problem. :)

[amaso20005]

i don"t have it

[mbucari1]

If you have a 2.8GHz, your mobo will probably support higher. Download cpu-z (http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-138.zip) and run. Goto the mainboard tab and get the model number. Google it and find out the max cpu that it will support. Finally, goto http://www.newegg.com/ (http://www.newegg.com/)and buy the max.
(http://www.newegg.com/)

[unholyman]

For better image quality,it is always the more powerful the CPU and gfx card,the better the image,but the quality difference may not be very significant. But i can say that ATI gfx card provides better quality than nvidia gfx card,with the exception of the 8800gtx