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How To Play HD Video On a Netbook

Posted by timothy on from the addressing-that-stuttering-problem dept.

Barence writes with some news to interest those with netbooks running Windows: "Netbooks aren't famed for their high-definition video playing prowess, but if you've got about $10 and a few minutes going spare, there is a way to enjoy high-definition trailers and videos on your Atom-powered portable. You need three things: a copy of Media Player Classic Home Cinema, CoreCodec's CoreAVC codec, and some HD videos encoded in AVC or h.264 formats. This blog takes you through the process."

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  1. And? by psycho12345 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or I can just get an ION powered netbook, install Linux and use VDPAU, and play any HD without any issue. Why is this news?

    1. Re:And? by batkiwi · · Score: 4, Informative

      -VDPAU is a decoding library. MPlayer (and many other media programs) supports VDPAU.
      -mplayer WITHOUT an external hardware accelerated decoding library will not be able to play 720p/1080p files on a netbook without severe stuttering (or possible complete failure).

    2. Re:And? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Informative


      $ cat ~/bin/mplayer-slowcpu
      #!/bin/sh
      mplayer -autosync 30 -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all $*

      --
      My God, it's Full of Source!
      OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
  2. Skip this story by syousef · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's no more than an ad for a codec.

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  3. VLC by Alcoholic+Synonymous · · Score: 5, Informative

    This works for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD... Step 1. Install VLC. Step 2. Done. I use Hulu Desktop on my Aspire One under Ubuntu NBR, and there is no magic to it. How did this shit make the main page?

  4. Re:How does this CoreAVC compare to K-lite? by Barny · · Score: 4, Informative

    K-lite is just a codec pack, most of these use the standard ffmpeg for h.264, the multi threaded version of which is still "experimental", also coreavc not only is extremely optimised it also supports CUDA, so if you have an NV based netbook it will run much better with very little CPU usage.

    I own a copy of coreavc for all my machines I expect to play h.264 on (3 copies), and was very happy to see haali splitter (along with coreavc) is now 64-bit, so full windows media centre support :)

    It works, its cheap, I like paying programmers/companies who do a good job, it makes a nice precedent.

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    /me sighs
  5. Get the right netbook by Sheik+Yerbouti · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just buy the right netbook the Asus 1201N plays High def video perfectly well because it has an Nvidia 9400M graphics processors with Cuda and hardware video decoding. It will even output 1080P via it's HDMI port. It also has a dual core Atom 330 running at 1.6 ghz. All together it's a hell of a gadget for the money.