Confused about the "1080p" thing...

[chrono1081]

Hi guys,

I always see threads where people complain about Mac OS not being able to play 1080p video...

...but it does. It plays the 1080p video my slr shoots just fine. Am I missing something here?

I also downloaded 1080p video clips online and they played just fine. What are people referring to when they say Mac OS can't play 1080p?

 

[iMouse]

Perhaps they were incorrectly referencing some codecs or container formats that can contain high-def video that do not play well or at all on the Mac OS.

Some high-def Flash video, until hardware acceleration was enabled, ran like crap on most low to mid-range Macs.

I specifically bought my Mac mini as a media center to play 1080p H.264 video in a .mkv container.

 

[neutrino23]

Possibly they are referring to the Mac TV not playing 1080P?

 

[G.T.]

Maybe their system isn't as good

 

[martinX]

What are people referring to when they say Mac OS can't play 1080p?

Dunno. Which people/threads?

 

[chrono1081]

Thanks guys for the responses

@MartinX, I forget which ones exactly. I see it fairly often though, especially when people talk about ripping blu ray.

 

[spatry]

I had a iMac summer 2007 and it wasn't able to play h.264 in 1080p. I think the first time I saw a iMac playing 1080p without dropping frames was when the announced the Nvidia with the h.264 embedded decoder. Now I have a MBP (summer 2010) 17'' and it plays fullscreen 1080p video without dropping a single frame... at around 10-15% cpu (thanks to Nvidia hardware decoder).

Sylvain

 

[roslee7]

wat there mean is that when a HD video of 1080p be play on a slower computer, the video will be lagging. I have a same problem coz mine is 1st generation macbook air and when its hot, the video will lag. quite frustrating sometimes.

 

[KeithPratt]

wat there mean is that when a HD video of 1080p be play on a slower computer, the video will be lagging. I have a same problem coz mine is 1st generation macbook air and when its hot, the video will lag. quite frustrating sometimes.

I think, given the reference to Blu-ray, the issue might be that Macs don't natively play nice with certain codecs and wrappers. Which is not to do with HD, per se.