.mkv playback Snow Leopard GPU acceleration

toebs · Sep 5, 2009, 05:34 AM

Main reason i got Snow Leopard was for the GPU acceleration for 1080p video playback, but quick time X doesnt support mkv fileformat, so is there any way to play mkv with GPU acceleration?

broken-chaos · Sep 5, 2009, 05:37 AM

Very unlikely. If the MKV video stream is in h.264 and you use Perian + QuickTime Player, it might use hardware acceleration where available, but I can't be sure on that at all.

Also note that the H.264 hardware acceleration is only currently available on the Nvidia 9400M chipset, not on any of the others.

toebs · Sep 5, 2009, 05:55 AM

thanks for the answer.
Will the same apply to x.264 as h.264?

Sep 5, 2009, 05:34 AM	#1
toebs macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2008	.mkv playback Snow Leopard GPU acceleration Main reason i got Snow Leopard was for the GPU acceleration for 1080p video playback, but quick time X doesnt support mkv fileformat, so is there any way to play mkv with GPU acceleration?

Sep 5, 2009, 05:37 AM	#2
broken-chaos macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Toronto, Ontario	Very unlikely. If the MKV video stream is in h.264 and you use Perian + QuickTime Player, it might use hardware acceleration where available, but I can't be sure on that at all. Also note that the H.264 hardware acceleration is only currently available on the Nvidia 9400M chipset, not on any of the others. __________________ Black MacBook, 2.4 GHz, 4GiB RAM, 320GB HD (7200RPM); iPod touch 2G, 16GB

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Sep 5, 2009, 05:55 AM	#3
toebs Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2008	thanks for the answer. Will the same apply to x.264 as h.264?