HD Video Playback on the MBA 11"

[s4yunkim]

Can someone who bought a macbook air 11" tell me how well HD video plays back on their system?

I know that I'm not gonna be using it for 1080p content while I'm on the go, but I do have a lot of movies in 720p, as well as TV shows.

Would someone be willing to download a 720 and 1080 trailer off apple's site and full screen it? Any comments on how those run (with and without the adapter plugged in), as well as how 720/1080 MKV's on vlc run would be gladly appreciated.

Thanks


PS. I just started reading the review on engadget, seems that the 11" chokes a little on 1080p Youtube videos, but I assume that's because it's in flash...

 

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Can someone who bought a macbook air 11" tell me how well HD video plays back on their system?

I know that I'm not gonna be using it for 1080p content while I'm on the go, but I do have a lot of movies in 720p, as well as TV shows.

Would someone be willing to download a 720 and 1080 trailer off apple's site and full screen it? Any comments on how those run (with and without the adapter plugged in), as well as how 720/1080 MKV's on vlc run would be gladly appreciated.

Thanks


PS. I just started reading the review on engadget, seems that the 11" chokes a little on 1080p Youtube videos, but I assume that's because it's in flash...

There's couple of threads about this already.

You have to use a player that supports (atleast Plex) using the GPU to play the HD files. Atleast 720p should play nicely.

 

[elwood58]

720p looks very good, and 1080p looks fantastic, but flash based 1080p seems to drop frames here and there, but is still very watchable. I am running Flash version 10.1 r85, so I know it is hardware accelerated. I do not have a 1080p display, so in my testing up to 50 inch plasma, it all involved scaling of the output, which adds another dimension of difficulty. I did my testing with VGA, DVI, and HDMI (including audio).

Just for grins, I even connected to 11.6 MBA to my Matrox Box and drove three external monitors. It did pretty well.