Can a Lap Top play SageTV High def recordings

[msmith8228]

Has anyone had any success using a Lap Top as a SageTV client to play back High Definition recordings?

I tested a new Dell Latitude D620 on the weekend (widescreen with dual core technology) but it was a "no-go" with the playback constantly plagued with stuttering. The graphics chip was an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator that can use up to 240Meg of system memory but still it did not work well. I used all the tricks including the Nvidia decoder -- but to no avail.

Anyone else have any luck?

MJS

[heffe2001]

The Intel GMA probably just isn't up to the task. If the machine is still under the initial 15 days, I'd return it, and get something installed other than the onboard video (ANYTHING is better than that). If you get the onboard only option, you can't ever upgrade the video either. I have a 9400 with the x1400 video, and it plays HD material fine (looks great on the 17" panel, running at 1920x1200).

The onboard video solutions work great for business-type apps, but anything running VMR9/3d they are just not that good for.

Also could depend on your panels' resolution, did you get the WXGA, or the WXGA+?

Have you tried to play the recorded files in WMP?

Also forgot, that laptop looks to be configured with either the onboard video, or an Nvidia Quadro. Not sure how the quadro's work with HD material, but I would assume it would work pretty well.

[GKusnick]

As heffe says, it's not laptop v. desktop, it's cheap graphics v. decent graphics. My three-year-old 1.6 GHz Latitude D800 with GeForce4 4200 Go does a decent job with HD in Overlay mode, but it's not quite up to VMR9. There are newer laptops out there with faster CPUs and better graphics that should be able to handle it. Look for gaming-oriented machines rather than business-oriented.

[paulbeers]

Nothing like coming in and doing nothing but agreeing, but yep. I agree! My Sempron 2600+ (runs at 1.6 GHZ with only 128KB of L2 Cache) handles HD just fine because it is using a geforce 6600 for video out. My Dell E1405 with a Core 2 Duo T5600 and the Intel GMA 950, could never hack it (but I bought it for portability/long batter life/video editing).