How To Play HD Video On a Netbook 205
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."
How does this CoreAVC compare to K-lite? (Score:1, Insightful)
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.
How for /. has fallen (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Err... (Score:3, Insightful)
What good is 720p video on my 1024x600 monitor? Too bad they don't make 600p videos.
Which of you fucktard voted up Spam? (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously, this is looks like any of the rest of the spam, especially with the opening statement.
Why HD video takes money (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Ummm? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:VLC (Score:5, Insightful)
Where can I buy a 10" 1080p netbook?
Re:You will also need (Score:3, Insightful)
Don't know why that popped into my head. I was thinking of newer movie franchises that sucked and that popped in first.
Re:And? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:VLC (Score:2, Insightful)
two words: External display
Re:VLC (Score:1, Insightful)
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.
Re:And? (Score:2, Insightful)
(Bonus points to anyone that gets the reference).
Re:And? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:And? (Score:3, Insightful)
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...
Decode != Display (Score:1, Insightful)
To playback 1080p you have to decode it first which will cause stuttering on slow hardware regardless of the display size.
Re:And? (Score:3, Insightful)