I recently bought a monitor at 21.5 inches and was not very happy when my Samsung N150 did not pull 1080p and even sometimes 720p.
Not many people know that for example the Intel GMA 3150 supports MPEG2 hardware decoding.
On the Internet, when searching for “1080p on a netbook,” everyone says that this is impossible! There is a solution that allows you to watch it almost without losing the original quality.

But how?!

And just need to transcode video like this (for example, ffmpeg)
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -b 5000k -threads 4 -acodec copy -vcodec mpeg4 output.avi
This video will have a similar quality, you can set -sameq instead of "" -b 5000k "if you are sure that the BD source is for example, otherwise it will slow down, weigh a lot and have a very large bitrate.

• 5000-7000k - for 720p
• 5000-9000k for 1080p (with 5000, there may be a loss of quality with very dynamic scenes, with 9000 "squares" should not be)

results

When transcoding using -b 5000k of the same place, the load from 100% (brakes) was replaced by smoothness at 40-60% and this at 1080p on a netbook for 7000 rubles! sameq gives a little worse results, but almost the same quality gives us a gain of 20-50%.

What's the catch?

1. Recoding takes time, so when watching TV shows, it will be easier to recode on the “big brother” and look at the netbook without brakes.
2. mpeg4 with the same quality will weigh about 30% more
3. mpeg4 has a slightly lower quality (connoisseurs will notice, but I think connoisseurs will have better equipment)

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The video is smooth and does not slow down. Without any CoreAVC, etc. I apologize for the brevity - there is not much to write, but I think the information will be important to many.
I hope this little note will help people watch FullHD on netbooks and weak nettops.