I have a Thinkpad R500 running Ubuntu 14.04 with a Radeon HD3470 and it seems like it isn't able to play HD videos without stuttering.
I tried watching this demo video (setting Youtube to 1080p) in all major browsers (Opera/Chromium/Firefox) the video is only playing with massive stuttering.
Downloading the 1440p and 1080p version of this video via youtube-dl and playing it via VLCplayer is somewhat more fluent, but still with sporadic stuttering.
As load immediately goes up and CPU usage is 100% as soon as trying to play this video, I guess, that the system lacks hardware accelaration for video decoding.
Is a Core2Duo not capable of decoding HD videos without help of the GPU?
If not, I would assume that the GPU should be more then capable to play HD videos - is there any chance I can get hardware video decoding in Ubuntu with this setup?
Hardware/software info:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0xa07
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 3072 KB
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 8105560 kB
MemFree: 3979600 kB
Buffers: 152896 kB
Cached: 1893088 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
sudo lshw -c video
*-display
Beschreibung: VGA compatible controller
Produkt: RV620/M82 [Mobility Radeon HD 3450/3470]
Hersteller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Physische ID: 0
Bus-Informationen: pci@0000:01:00.0
Version: 00
Breite: 32 bits
Takt: 33MHz
Fähigkeiten: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
Konfiguration: driver=radeon latency=0
Ressourcen: irq:49 memory:f0000000-f7ffffff ioport:2000(Größe=256) memory:f8000000-f800ffff memory:f8020000-f803ffff
dpkg -s xserver-xorg-video-ati
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 92
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1