HD Designs: 720p MKV on an Atom netbook

Posted by Scout on December 7, 2009

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HD DESIGNS

If you’re a netbook owner, you learn to be generally forgiving. After all, these machines were designed to handle low-power tasks, not gaming or video editing. Sometimes, though, you can’t help but try to squeeze the most out of these little computers. For example, how about playing 720p HD content without lags? Most files I tried on my EEE PC 1000H work just fine with Media Player Classic and proper decoders, except for some high-quality .mkv files. I could almost hear my netbook begging for mercy, stuttering and even crashing.

After reading through every forum and experimenting with various players, I’ve found the exact combination does the job right: KMplayer + CoreAVC + Haali Media Splitter + a few tweaks. This step-by-step guide is a modified/simplified version of those listed in Project HTPC.

1.) Install the latest version of The KMPlayer

2.) Install CoreAVC H.264 software video decoder

3.) Install Haali Media Splitter (untick ALL checkboxes)

4.) Open up KMPlayer, right click on the screen and go to Options > Preferences General > Playback > Work Priority > Tick Enable SuperSpeed

5.) Go to Filter Control > Decoder Usage > Internal Video Decoder > Untick H.264 and AVC1

6.) Now go to Filter Control > Decoder Usage > External Video Decoder > Set H.264 Video and AVC1 Video to System Default

7.) Click the “c” next to H.264 to display the CoreAVC settings > Tick Preferred decoder

8.) Still within the KMPlayer settings go to: Filter Control > Splitter > Select System default for Matroska

9.) Go to Filter control > Source Filter > The Rest tab > Tick Matroska

10.) Go to Video Processing > Renderer tab > Choose Overlay Mixer > Close to save settings

You can now open your favorite 720p MKV video and play it on full screen. Hook up your netbook to a bigger monitor to make it even better. Just be sure to turn off Aero in Appearance settings to optimize performance. Also, close all other applications to dedicate all resources to video playback. That’s it! Enjoy!



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4 Responses to “HD Designs: 720p MKV on an Atom netbook”

  1. videoman on December 17th, 2009 2:05 am

    You don’t need KMplayer. The same thing can be done with CCCP using CoreAVC, works just the same.

  2. Scout on December 22nd, 2009 9:13 am

    i haven’t tried that combo, but yeah other 720p MKV files work on the Media Player Classic, Zoom Player, and other apps. it’s just that with files that have very high bit rates, video and audio would eventually go out of sync. only KMPlayer worked without any hitch, without the CPU usage hitting 100% (usually 60-70%) on an EEE PC 1000H.

  3. bryan on February 16th, 2010 4:50 pm

    This is awesome. Worked like a charm. Thank’s

  4. Adrian on February 26th, 2010 5:28 pm

    Thank you so much Scout, I only have a question, @ step 7 after clicking in the ‘C’ I don’t see any ‘Preferred decoder option’.

    Where is it supposed to be?

    Thanks a lot!

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