Acer Aspire One with Broadcom Video Accelerator Active

The video is showing how smooth the playback is using the Broadcom HD Video Accelerator in an Aspire Aspire One netbook. The video is a 1080P H.264/AVC MP4 file.

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[terracode1]

@Sean9941

You can find it on EBay for $40.00. You'll need the drivers (HP driver for the Broadcom video accelerator which installs better than the Dell driver. Currently it only works with the enhanced version of Total Media Theater. You can find on the HP site. Support from other software makers soon. I hope the drivers will be available with Windows 7 or the current HP driver will work. Don't think there is OSX support since it requires the software vendors to code support for it.

[terracode1]

Adobe is working with Broadcom to add support in a future flash player update due first half 2010.

[pcpll]

They should invent a sort of CUDA accelerator instead, so we would be able to accelerate videos and all what we want. It's best.

[dhico0502]

will this also help in playing games? will it work like a graphics card?

[jclust]

Right now it does not but hopefully with the flash player update coming hopefully next month it should.....

[jclust]

Yes, but make sure you have the latest bios for your netbook...At first my netbook would not reconize my card, but once i updated the bios it work like a charm...

[jclust]

I have an acer one d250 with empty pci express slot will it work?

[Jonhny2]

Who would want to watch 1080p HD video on a tiny netbook screen?

[netbooked]

Thanks for your videos and article. It helped me alot. I got everything set up but it seems very problematic for me.

It will play 1080p perfectly if I don't touch / move the window or skip scenes otherwise it just hangs.

I'm on Windows 7 but I don't see how that would matter. Going to go back and try Windows XP.

[SeanL9941]

The Broadcom BCM70012 is only 60 bux on ebay.. if i get it pop it in will it automaticly work, or do i just need drivers from hp?broadcom? and WOW it LOOKS worth it, any issues with windows 7(if you tried it) or OS X?

thanks