Interesting that you say that because I had to install Plex on my desktop the other day because the Atom in my NAS couldn't decode the video. My other experience with an Atom was when I bought a netbook right before tablets became popular. That netbook couldn't stream a video from Youtube without studdering. Both of my experiences with Atoms have been absolutely horrible,
You expect a J1900 from 2013 to decode every single type of video? That processor's decoder cannot hardware accelerate VP9 and HEVC. It also cannot accelerate 10-bit h.264 (there is no hardware decoder that can).
If it fails even for regular h.264, then the problem is somewhere else, not the processor.
It seems it can accelerate HEVC after all, but I don't know if it's full hardware acceleration or hybrid. If the latter, then it'll struggle with high bit-rate videos.
When it comes to gaming on Windows, Bay Trail runs everything I ask it to run. Picking the right games for the system obviously is necessary. The first and second Star Wars Battlefront, Terraria, Age of Wonders, and a smattering of other fairly old titles that are on the low end of demand run fine at max settings (minus AA, of course). In Atom's single core days, the old N270 and N450 were sufficient as my primary Windows gaming laptops as well when they were in little netbooks. Pick your games wisely, go have fun. You still have to do that even with relatively modern hardware and recent titles so I don't see the difference in working with a little less and lowering your overall hardware (and often software) cost because you were still entertained for a few hours when its all said and done.
I was playing Minecraft on the N270. Good times! The newer Intel chips focus more on lowering the power usage than on increasing performance, although Bay Trail was still pretty good. (I'm writing this on a Surface Book with a Core i7, and the whole system is running on less wattage than even my 2011 netbook.)
Gimini lake can transcode 4 1080p streams at a time for plex. And it will do 4k video no problem. But it lacks hdr support. If intel solves this problem then you jave a great little media server
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29a - Friday, October 25, 2019 - link
Interesting that you say that because I had to install Plex on my desktop the other day because the Atom in my NAS couldn't decode the video. My other experience with an Atom was when I bought a netbook right before tablets became popular. That netbook couldn't stream a video from Youtube without studdering. Both of my experiences with Atoms have been absolutely horrible,eddman - Friday, October 25, 2019 - link
You expect a J1900 from 2013 to decode every single type of video? That processor's decoder cannot hardware accelerate VP9 and HEVC. It also cannot accelerate 10-bit h.264 (there is no hardware decoder that can).If it fails even for regular h.264, then the problem is somewhere else, not the processor.
eddman - Friday, October 25, 2019 - link
It seems it can accelerate HEVC after all, but I don't know if it's full hardware acceleration or hybrid. If the latter, then it'll struggle with high bit-rate videos.There is definitely no 10-bit support though.
eddman - Friday, October 25, 2019 - link
Scratch that; no HEVC for Bay Trail: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9167/intel-compute-...digitalgriffin - Thursday, October 24, 2019 - link
Lol. Hey Randy. Hows the layout going? Small world.PeachNCream - Friday, October 25, 2019 - link
When it comes to gaming on Windows, Bay Trail runs everything I ask it to run. Picking the right games for the system obviously is necessary. The first and second Star Wars Battlefront, Terraria, Age of Wonders, and a smattering of other fairly old titles that are on the low end of demand run fine at max settings (minus AA, of course). In Atom's single core days, the old N270 and N450 were sufficient as my primary Windows gaming laptops as well when they were in little netbooks. Pick your games wisely, go have fun. You still have to do that even with relatively modern hardware and recent titles so I don't see the difference in working with a little less and lowering your overall hardware (and often software) cost because you were still entertained for a few hours when its all said and done.mkozakewich - Sunday, October 27, 2019 - link
I was playing Minecraft on the N270. Good times! The newer Intel chips focus more on lowering the power usage than on increasing performance, although Bay Trail was still pretty good. (I'm writing this on a Surface Book with a Core i7, and the whole system is running on less wattage than even my 2011 netbook.)Jorgp2 - Thursday, October 24, 2019 - link
Yeah, like 4 years ago.Get with the times
digitalgriffin - Thursday, October 24, 2019 - link
Gimini lake can transcode 4 1080p streams at a time for plex. And it will do 4k video no problem. But it lacks hdr support. If intel solves this problem then you jave a great little media serverIII-V - Thursday, October 24, 2019 - link
Over half a decade ago... where have you been?