I'll try to find this out tomorrow, but it seems to me that the winning combination of players is KMplayer (from the above link) and mplayer from sheeplauncher.net. The file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ shows;

deb http://sheeplauncher.net/debs/ ./ #Packrat

I added that through MeeCatalog.

Strangely SMplayer plays the same test video like crap that plays perfectly smoothly with KMplayer using mplayer 2:2.0 package.

The video that I'm using is one that was ripped from a DVD, Nautilus shows it as Dimensions 712x462, Codec H264, 24 frames per second, bitrate 18kbps.

Audio is Dolby Digital (AC-3) Stereo with 192 kbps.

This basically is 720p, and works a treat with this combination!

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