Playing HD video (non-flash) on AAO D250

If you're having stutter problems playing 1280x720 mp4 (H264) videos on your Acer Aspire One netbook, you may want to try the following out.

My netbook specs:
Acer Aspire One D250
1.66 GHz Atom CPU (no overclocking)
1GB DDR-2 RAM @ 533MHz single-channel
Intel GMA950 graphics
Windows XP SP3

Here's what happened:
I couldn't get my 1280x720 .mp4 files to play without serious stutter problems in VLC media player (ver 1.1.5). I downloaded and installed K-Lite codec pack (K-Lite_Codec_Pack_700_Full.exe) and managed to see significant improvement when playing 1280x720 .mp4 videos (in Windows Media Player 11), but there were some videos that lagged .

Mind if you try installing the K-Lite codec pack and report the results here?

 

I've been using (and continuously updating) the K-Lite Mega CoDec pack for years. I even created the guide in the How-To section on how to obtain and install it.

My D250 has been playing all the video's I've thrown at it without a problem. Mind you I upgraded the RAM and OS when I first bought it, check my signature.

 

i despise the K-Lite pack since it's messy and never uninstalls cleanly. A far better codec pack is the Combined Community Codec Pack. I and vast number of other people swear by it as it's very clean, plays everything under the sun, and is overall better than the K-Lite junk in just about every way.

However, as you have noticed, even with either codec pack not every HS video is perfectly smooth. CoreAVC however (which is unfortunately a paid codec) is the fastest H264 codec on the market and definitely improves HD video playback on netbooks once configured.