It seems the past few days all I can do is play with Jolicloud’s applications and then they come out with news like this today!! Never again will we be claiming that the new Pine Trail netbooks offer almost the same performance as the Atom N270/N280 processors but with longer battery life. Tariq Krim and his team at Jolicloud are going to be releasing a new version of the Jolicloud operating system that will add support for 1080p HD video playback on Pine Trail netbooks.
Well, its not just Pine Trail, they are all getting the some loving those with NVIDIA ION graphics, GMA 500 graphics, and VIA C7-M processors. But if we are looking at Pine trail here are the facts:
- 1080p HD video: DivX, Xvid, and most other MPEG4-based codecs should work… except for H.264
- 720p HD video: H.264 should play smoothly
- In order to play, you’ll need a netbook with an Atom N450 or N470 processor and integrated GMA 3150 graphics
- No external processor such as the Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator is needed
- Unfortunately the new kernel will not be able to bring 1080p video support to netbooks with GMA 950 graphics. They’re just not up to the task.
We are waiting with baited breath for the update sometime next week, but for now you can check out a video of the Samsung N220 netbook playing 1080p HD video right here.
