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Acer Revo R3600 / R3610 BBC iPlayer HD Fix

02 Apr

After struggling to deal with video that was stuttering from BBC HD iPlayer I think i have found a solution (using Windows 7).

The key to this was updating to the latest Nvidia Ion Graphics Driver, and using the beta 1 version of Adobe Flash.

Beta 1 is the only version that works. I have tested beta 2 and beta 3, both of these do not seem to utilise the GPU accelleration for one reason or another.

It is no longer possible to download both the plugin and activex flash files from the Adobe website so to help, I have included the two files below.

Please note that it is best to remove any previous installations of flash player before installing both the files below. I hope this helps a number of people out with similar problem.

Adobe Flash Player Beta 1 ActiveX Download

Adobe Flash Player Beta 1 Plugin Download

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17 Comments

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  1. Steve

    6 April 10 at 5:38 pm

    Thanks for the drivers, very good of you :-)

     

  2. mike

    6 April 10 at 7:17 pm

    Glad to have helped. Just hope the solution works for you as well as it did for me :)

     

  3. Hugh

    23 April 10 at 7:47 pm

    Ref your Acer Revo/BBC iplayer fix, are the Adobe Flash Beta 1 files suitable for 64bit Win 7?

     

  4. admin

    23 April 10 at 8:00 pm

    Yes, since writing this article I have been advised that these work on both 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows 7.

    Apparently there is no difference.

    Hope that heps

     

  5. Tom

    24 April 10 at 10:04 am

    Excellent, I have been baffled why all other flash content plays fine but the iPlayer is terrible!
    Will try this later and report back :)
    Thank you for publishing your findings!

     

  6. Tom

    24 April 10 at 10:54 am

    Wow, massive improvement! Do you know if a similar thing is possible for the Adobe Air based iPlayer desktop?
    Who broke it here? Some forums claim that the BBC must have changed encoding technique around the 24th or 14th or March?

     

  7. mike

    24 April 10 at 4:35 pm

    I havn’t managed to get Adobe Air working smoothly yet, beta versions are meant to use the accellerated GPU, but again, doesn’t seem to work on the Revo yet :( If I can find a solution I will post it here.

     

  8. David

    28 April 10 at 1:59 pm

    Can you advsie whether this works with the 3600 as well as the 3610? I am considering the base 3600 version (with base 1Gb Ram) but want to ensure it can handle HD media (including HD IPlayer) effectively

     

  9. HenryL

    29 April 10 at 2:36 pm

    Thanks for the info, I’m going to have a go at this through XP as youtube HD video is very stuttery. iPlayer is generally fine but for high bitrate scenes there can be some chop.

    For anyone having video issues you may find my post useful here:
    http://journal.x86.co.uk/2009/12/acer-aspire-revo-r3600-and-windows-xp/

     

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