will gpu increase movie quality?

[diaco]

So I purchased a 27inch 1080p monitor a bit ago (I now know 24inch is about the largest you should go at 1080 resolution), and when I view HD planet earth videos on youtube, some areas look great and some look pixelated or jaggies I think they are called, like mist, clouds and fine foliage in vast landscape shots.

will my soon to be purchased GPU increase the video quality?
or is my issue simply the pixel density to monitor size ratio?

using i7-3770 cpu

 

[cookybiscuit]

Nope, not unless the GPU solution you are currently using is too slow to play video at a decent framerate (extremely unlikely). Pixellation is simply down to 27" being pretty big for 1080p, as you've said. That and Youtube makes everything look awful, be sure to pick 'Original' if there's an option for it.

 

[Adrian Ocampo]

No. Rather monitor increases your movie quality )

 

[diaco]

damn I was afraid that was the answer, oh well thank you.

 

[jaguarskx]

The issue could be several things.

1. A really poor outdated graphics card may be the issue, but unlikely. Certainly any graphics card / core released since 2008 can handle 1080p video.

2. Low quality video encoded. 1080p video needs high bit rates to capture everything sharply the lower the bit rate, the lower the quality. Scenes with lots of detail and/or fast movement requires very high bit rates.

3. Bandwidth restrictions. This works in conjunction with #2 low quality video encoded. I am positive Youtube imposes a file size limitation. That file size limitation restricts how high the bit rate can be used to encode the video. The higher the bit rate, the larger the video file will be. Also, the longer the video the larger the video file will be.

4. Video format. Many video on Youtube is flash video. I particularly do not like that format / video codec. I prefer x.264 / H.264 codec. Codecs can affect overall quality of the video; some codecs are better than others. This is general statement because this can turn into an extreme technical discussion rather quickly.


As I stated, 1080p video requires high bit rate. This is why the capacity of Blu-Ray discs that movies come on are either 25GB or 50GB discs. The higher capacity Blu-Ray disc generally allows for additional bonus contents though like "The making of...", "Behind the scenes, or footage cut from the theatrical release since it would make the movie too damn long. An example would be the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

In order for movies to be stream-able, the file size must be reduced 'cause trying to stream a 25GB movie will be a slideshow. Thus, a relatively low bit rate is used which lowers the video quality. Lastly, upload speed is generally much slower than download speed. I think I can download at up to 1.5MB per second (assuming the server I am connected to download whatever it is will allow me to do so), but I can only upload 100KB per second.

 

[diaco]

ah that gives me some hope then. Maybe I did not make it clear, I do not have a graphics card yet, im using the i7's integrated graphics. I assume a 27inch monitor can be demanding on that, maybe once I get my gpu things will clear up.