Videolan has announced the official launch of VLC media player 1.0.0, codenamed Goldeneye.
The Videolan site says the new update includes the following changes:
* Free, Open Source and cross-platform
* Independant of systems codecs to support most video types
* Live recording
* Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
* Finer speed controls
* New HD ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Zippy90210: MMmm on mine anything fancy(h264,960X720 or higher) just can not play correctly, I think its due to the video chipset on mine, its the eeePC701. Plus I just found out the battery is not holding a charge I think this thing is going to get sent back, I might try for a 300$ lappy that has a crappy nividia 6xxx or better chipset in it >>
EeePC701, that means the Intel G915 chipset. Well that is disappointing that it won't work, even with the VLC. I kid you not, since we had our 1000H, five friends went out and bought one after seeing how well it performed... including my mother-in-law!
I'm almost certain that it performs better than a Celery 900- tho it's not meant to... In basic ordinary applications it doesn't seem far behind a decent desktop e.g. yes, FF will take a bit longer to start but once it's going... meh (we leave the thing in standby anyway). Hell, it has no problems running Photoshop CS4!... M-I-Law insisted that it be installed and much to my surprise it performed excellently.
I'm quite blown away with how nice it is to use, sorry to sound like an ad people. (Tho I'm f*cked on how to get the inbuilt webcam working properly.)
There are the Asus N10* models (10.2" screen) that have a separate (switchable, for power saving) nVidia GPU GeForce 9300M chip. I'd be so tempted to get one for myself if I could think of a decent reason to get it lol. But I guess you're not cashed up enough to afford one. They seem to be plummeting in price tho, as it's an area of hot competition. $749 Australian for the N10E is the cheapest I could find, surely you could do better in the States.
Back on topic, I'm pretty disappointed I could not get VLC to run a Blu-ray .iso or produce 5.1 sound (I mean, jeez, Realtek HD Audio should be pretty standard) on any poot. Sigh, I suppose I will have to truck along to their forums and ask questions...
I am sending the EEE PC back, I have decided to blow up to 300ish$ on a Turion X2 notebook if I can find one at that price on ebay when I haz 300 ready to dash attack it.... which will prolby be next month.
No no the EEE PC is rather surprising in trems of power and size, but the battery issue and or it not being able to tell when its plugged in or charging has me worried enough to say screw it.
there were many sync isses with subs and audio same for MPC, but it was the battery issues that got me >< if I am going to have to spend 250 I might as well get a real laptop and have 250-350 ready for the dive. A Turion X2 with 1 or more GB of ramm a working HDD and a good ninvinda(8200, will take a crappy 6100...) chipset is the best I can hope for...
The only real thing that surprised me in a bad way for the EEE PC is there are not down tuning options to save power, like easily control brightness and CPU speed, other than that and well the crappyness of the 4400 battery its a great lil netbook I have reservations about sending back...
the Asus N10 looks nice but if I am going to blow a grand I'll get a HP Pavilion TouchSmart or equivalent, a tablet PC is my dream. :P
Until lobbying is a hanging offense I choose anarchy!
Ah modern gaming its like modern film only the watering down of fiction and characters is replaced with shallow and watered down mechanics, gimmicks and shiny-er "people".
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