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Latest 13" MacBook Air and Blu-Ray good news!

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Mr Dobey

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I was amazed today after receiving the new MacBook Air 13" (2.13 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 256 SSD) at how well it decodes H.264 video.

I attached the full Blu-Ray specs of the file. (only the audio track was compressed to AAC, video is uncompressed).

Long story short, playing through Quicktime X the CPU never went above about 18% meaning practically the entire video was offloaded to the GPU😀
I could skip to any part of the movie with absolutely no lag or dropped frames.

Coming from a 3 year old MacBook Pro that cannot even play a Blu-Ray without being unthinkably choppy I am very pleased.

Just thought I'd share my great results.

I have not tested to see if the Displayport/HDMI out supports audio yet though.
 

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I was amazed today after receiving the new MacBook Air 13" (2.13 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 256 SSD) at how well it decodes H.264 video.

I attached the full Blu-Ray specs of the file. (only the audio track was compressed to AAC, video is uncompressed).

Long story short, playing through Quicktime X the CPU never went above about 18% meaning practically the entire video was offloaded to the GPU😀
I could skip to any part of the movie with absolutely no lag or dropped frames.

Coming from a 3 year old MacBook Pro that cannot even play a Blu-Ray without being unthinkably choppy I am very pleased.

Just thought I'd share my great results.

I have not tested to see if the Displayport/HDMI out supports audio yet though.
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another happy customer 😀
 
in a more important matter, why do you have a boondock saints II movie? I'm going to assume they never made a sequel.
 
The new MBA's MiniDisplayPort does support audio with HDMI!
Start System Profiler, and check 'Audio'.
 
My Air managed a 720p mkv file last night, not tried a full 1080p bluray rip yet. I've ordered a Moshi Mini-DP to HDMI adaptor (with Audio support) so I'm looking forward to testing that out 😀
 
Would someone please be so kind as to direct me to software and instructions to rip a blue ray disk to a hard drive for viewing on business travel? Thanks.
I have the Mac Book Air Ultimate.

Can I also do that with my latest generation maxed out iMAC 27"?
 
The previous gen MacBook Air played Blu-ray rips just fine with Plex, too. You just have to make sure to extract the HD audio to AC3 or DTS in the final container.
 
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