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How To Play HD Video On a Netbook
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."
Shame the article doesn't do any actual comparisons between any two codecs. Nope, the TFA just has one codec, and so the sum of the article is "look, this codec plays videos!" Way to prove you're not just an advertisement.
Come on.. an advertisement for a commercial codec to use in a Windows system / application?
How did this make it as a story?
I could maybe understand a story about doing this on an OSS system. But, that would not have been news because many of us have been doing that for years.
When the OSS Nvidia or Radeon driver gets full VDPAU support, that merits a front page story.
What good is 720p video on my 1024x600 monitor? Too bad they don't make 600p videos.
Seriously, this is looks like any of the rest of the spam, especially with the opening statement.
The preceding post was not a Slashvertisement.
As long as the screen resolution is high enough view HD why would HD video take any time or money to get?
The video itself is copyrighted and DRM'd, and the most common codec used to store it is patented and compute-intensive.
Or... you could download CCCP, and just use that. With a bit of tweaking and just the stock codecs supplied one can easily get a 720p/1080p video playing on a standard retail netbook. However with an uncompressed bluray rip or something of that nature I'd imagine you're out of luck, I've never tried myself. The ability to play HD video on a netbook is easily obtainable free if you are using the right file format/player and have the proper codecs. As I said though for the average person just download CCCP, it's a free cure-all for your media playing woes with few exceptions. I'm not sure why this is even posted here. Anyone buying a netbook at a retail store isn't getting anything above a 600p monitor and those of who take the time to shop online for a 1366x768 netbook are more than savvy enough to get it working, not to mention the typical Slashdot posters. Even then I can't imagine a Slashdotter buying netbooks this day and age what with similarly priced ultraportable laptops at the same size that are thinner, more powerful and feature 8-12 hours of battery life standard (Timeline series from Acer for example). I suppose some of us have kids and family members we'd buy netbooks for though. For a standard 600p netbook though why even bother with this? You want that 400i/p video you got off the internet or from your digital recorder to look nice? Use some nice upconversion software and play it like that to save resources. No way in hell you'll be able to run a real-time quality up-conversion player on a netbook though.
Where can I buy a 10" 1080p netbook?
moox. for a new generation.
Don't know why that popped into my head. I was thinking of newer movie franchises that sucked and that popped in first.
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That may not be easier http://xkcd.com/349/
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two words: External display
Would you rather transcode 1080p to a lower resolution or also keep a 720p version around taking up extra space. Even if a screen cannot display 1080p it is still important to be able to play it.
(Bonus points to anyone that gets the reference).
If only there were some kind of manual for programs like mplayer. Then you might know where to go to find that kind of information.
I wouldn't say the atom is pathetic...it solves a certian problem reasonably well.
It's a little slower then your white hot core 2 whatever, but it serves it's purpose as a low-power x86 compatable processor. Beats the crap out of a pentium or celeron running at the same clock.
That's not to say an arm or similar might not solve the problem better...
To playback 1080p you have to decode it first which will cause stuttering on slow hardware regardless of the display size.
Sad but true. Documentation isn't as fun to write as code.
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