Acer Aspire One D255E - choppy video playback

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shackrock

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I just got this netbook, loaded up VLC on it, and tried to play an HD .mkv file I have. It's incredebly choppy, unwatchable really.

I don't care if it's HD while playing...but I need the computer to be able to play an HD source, obviously. Can VLC or any other software package down-convert the video on the fly, and allow this little netbook to play it smoothly?

Thanks all...
 
Does it have a graphics chip designed to handle HD video?
If you're solely relying on the Atom to handle all processing you may be SOL.
 
ugh.... ha. that really sucks.

Is there anything software that can buffer this stuff for a bit first, and then let me watch as it continues? haha.
 
You should check out MPC for your video playback. When I was running Windows on my netbook (now linux), i used MPC instead of VLC and it was much better. Try that. It might work, or might not
 
MPC is similar... it runs for a few seconds, video slows way down, audio cuts out, then plays for a few seconds, then repeats... over and over.

argh... so what am I looking at now... do I have to downconvert all of my files before transfering to the netbook? With some program?
 
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