Software to transcode HD video to netbook

[coinz]

My brother has a netbook that is having some trouble playing 720p video (fast moving scenes) and can't play 1080p at all

I've tried google searching and I can't find anything, looking for something similar to Air Video for the iphone where it has a server on a more powerful computer that transcodes the video and just streams it to the iphone

don't know if this is the right section but is there any program that I can use that would do the same thing?

thanks

 

[AFurryReptile]

Set up TVersity, and play the content through your web browser. (Quality isn't the greatest, but this may have changed since I used it)

Set up Subsonic, stream the content through that. I currently use this method, and it works great.

I believe you can set up a VLC proxy as well.

 

[coinz]

awesome thanks for the info will try these out and see how they work

 

[Anubis]

what was suggested will work, also if you don't want to stream you could use Handbrake to transcode things down to a working setting

 

[dclive]

My brother has a netbook that is having some trouble playing 720p video (fast moving scenes) and can't play 1080p at all

I've tried google searching and I can't find anything, looking for something similar to Air Video for the iphone where it has a server on a more powerful computer that transcodes the video and just streams it to the iphone

don't know if this is the right section but is there any program that I can use that would do the same thing?

thanks

Try Splash Lite. There's an option you've got to tick to enable HW acceleration, and then playback, even for larger MKVs, is very good. I used it when I had a Core 2 Solo CPU in a netbook and it could then handle playback (VLC couldn't.)