Full video playback

shymoon · **Posted:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:10 am

I have a 701 surf 4g running on base, with only 444 mg free space on SSD, and a 32gb SD.

i am having trouble playing certain video formats. For example i can't play an MP4 H264 or MKV's in VLC media player with out the picture freezing (while sound runs fine). I have installed restricted extras.

Is it possible to have fully functional streaming video (HD youtube for example) and fully functioning video playback with VLC? or is the CPU simply too slow?

TRiPgod · **Posted:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:28 pm

That's a little too much for for that little machine.
I think that's why Asus is making bigger and bigger "netbooks".

shymoon · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:07 am

good to know, thanks.

mikkim12 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:34 pm

I'm not sure if this applies to H264, but I found mplayer to be better for MPEG2. My video used to stutter, but it turned out that the network was slow. I got mplayer and changed cache to max (I think 100 MB?) and it played much smoother. Of course, that made the latency to playback a bit (lot) longer. but at least it doesn't chop video every 2 seconds. I also found navigation much better with mplayer; left arrow, up arrow, page up works really well for skipping commercials!

shymoon · **Posted:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:55 am

mikkim12 wrote:

I got mplayer and changed cache to max (I think 100 MB?) and it played much smoother. Of course, that made the latency to playback a bit (lot) longer. but at least it doesn't chop video every 2 seconds. I also found navigation much better with mplayer; left arrow, up arrow, page up works really well for skipping commercials!

how do you change the cache, i can't find that in the preferences?

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