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Anyone try playing 4K video on the MBPr?
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Just watched a Youtube. It is a noticeable difference between 4K and 1080P. 4K looks awesome.
1080P is still nice, but 4K is very crisp. However it takes a good 10 minutes for a 3 minute video to buffer.
1080P is still nice, but 4K is very crisp. However it takes a good 10 minutes for a 3 minute video to buffer.
Probably just playing 4k videos via a streaming site like youtube.
Here's one for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-GYrbecb88
comparing 1080p vs 4k on youtube? Are you guys kidding me? The 1080p on youtube is rubbish and look like ****.
I'm sorry to say but full 1080p and 4K should look identitical on a small 15inch screen. If not, there's a problem with the scaling of your gpu.
I'm sorry to say but full 1080p and 4K should look identitical on a small 15inch screen. If not, there's a problem with the scaling of your gpu.
It would be better to be able to have access to non-YouTube or footage that you can play locally on your machine. The streaming of 4K takes a great load of bandwidth and can be a toll on most connections. If you had an MP4 file in 4K it would probably play much smoother than anything on YouTube, and I am absolutely sure the Retina MacBook Pro can handle it.
You can download the MP4 file from youtube! Just use something like jdownloader!
If you copy the youtube link of "The Hobbit" 4k trailer to jdownloader you can see the various streams to download including the 4k (original) and the 1080p MP4 files
Agreed, going to youtube for reference quality video is silly. It's all severely bitrate-starved in order to make it streamable.
+1 for jDownloader.
The resolution of the display becomes the limiting factor at the point so increasing the resolution won't help.
They have a version of this movie scaled specifically for the rMBP, as well as full 4K and other sizes:
http://timescapes.org/
http://timescapes.org/
I'm not sure why but for some reason my RMBP isn't able to play 4K videos well. After letting the Timescapes Original footage buffer on Youtube, the video stuttered through playback. After that, I downloaded two sample 2160P clips off the internet and tried playing them in VLC, and neither video would play without massive stuttering. I have a 2.7ghz RMBP with 16gigs of memory and I am using Safari. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
Im jealous. I wonder if they have a trailer in that resolution. Would go to my local
store to see it in all its glory.I just downloaded and played their "2560p" version
552mb file for 2 minutes of video!
Resolution is 2560x1440, it's 33.5mb/s and it takes about 100-115% of CPU to run it, perfectly smoothly in quicktime X, though it's obviously using 1 core and some change.
Looks good.
552mb file for 2 minutes of video!
Resolution is 2560x1440, it's 33.5mb/s and it takes about 100-115% of CPU to run it, perfectly smoothly in quicktime X, though it's obviously using 1 core and some change.
Looks good.
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