Is there anything software-related I can do, to make ubuntu play high-quality mkv files smoothely?

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Published on 2012-11-27T10:37:51Z Indexed on 2012/11/27 11:21 UTC
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I've noticed that beyond let's say..a 20 MB/s bitrate, a movie would lag, played on my laptop..

It results in me missing the highest bitrated scenes of a movie.. And sometimes having to compromise for watching the movie at a lesser quality..

I was wondering if there's anything I can do software-wise to play movies smoothley..?

At the moment Ubuntu is installed with all the default settings on an 60GB SSD

I use VLC ofcourse..

I also have 2 1TB HDD - maybe I can use them as pagefiles? I don't really know alot about this so maybe this is irrelevant..

I took the laptop battery out since it was dead..but I think this is also irrelevant..

would appriciate a response, even if there's nothing that can be done software-wise :)

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