On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:29:02PM +1000, SYNeR wrote: > Your CPU really won't have an affect on your ability to play movies provided > you have a semi-decent video card. Because nvidia's video drivers for linux > are decent, > (at least for the GeForce4), you should be fine as your video card's GPU > will handle > the load. > > Here at the moment when I play a movie, my CPU usage is on 0% - 0.5%, thus > my video > card is doing all the work.
This will only be true if your video card (or some other component in your system) does hardware-assisted decoding and you have software that can use it. Normally, playing a highly-compressed format like DivX or XviD will require a considerable amount of CPU power. Older codecs don't need as much power, since they were written for older computers. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
