[Emviper1]

Ever wanted to play 720p video on your low end Atom based netbook? But you don't have ION based netbook? Tired of skipping and slow Full HD video playback? I just found out a near perfect solution for any netbook, even for those with just 1,6GHz Intel Atom processor and Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express...

Click here to read the entire tutorial

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Originally Posted by hchen42

Awesome, thanks OP! I stopped using my netbook last year and eventually sold it, because I got an iPad and it serves similar purpose. I came back here just for the heck of it, and found this guide! Awesome. I have a low end Toshiba laptop running on AMD 2-core CPU. It could barely play 720p back (plays well the first 5 minutes then the CPU heats up and slow up tremendously). Installing the new codec and media player classic, I have no problem with cpu and the heat problem.

do you have any issues with subtitles?

[chucksters]

had to register to say thanks!

This workaround is amazing. I've been trying to get 720p video to play on my netbook for over a year and nothing has worked. Thanks very much for sharing this.

--chucksters