Traveling with the Acer Aspire One

I'll be traveling over the next few days with work and there is plenty of traveling on the train involved, so I thought I would use my Acer Aspire One to provide some entertainment whilst I'm away.

I've filled 2 usb flash disks with videos and with VLC player they play really well on the Acer, to keep the audio to myself I'll be using the brilliant Panasonic RP-HT225 headphones to listen to the videos.

So along with the free Wi-fi on most trains these days, I should have more then enough to kill some time.

High Definition Video is currently a problem for the Acer Aspire One

I've been running a few tests with video playback quality using VLC player on my Acer Aspire One.

Normal broadcast quality video works really well using VLC player with a good quality frame rate and image quality.

However - High definition (720p) broadcast quality video suffers from a poor rame rate when watched on the Acer Aspire One with VLC player, the video is very jerky.

I'm not sure that this will be much of an issue for me as normal video does play really well.

It's just worth bearing in mind.

Video Quality on the Acer Aspire One through VLC Media Player

I had the opportunity to watch a film in AVI format this afternoon on my Acer Aspire One.
The film was stored on an external 500 GB USB Hard Drive, which I connected into my Acer and it was recognised and visible in the 'My Files' application almost immediately.

After navigating to the AVI file I was able to right click on it and choose to open it with VLC player.
The file streamed perfectly and the quality was outstanding, perfect frame rate and suberb picture quality - even in full screen mode.

I was very impressed - perfect for travel or solo watching.

Installing VLC Player on the Acer Aspire One

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