On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, 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.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JZidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 7:56 PM
> Subject: DivX and XviD - hardware requirements
>
>
> > I'm building a small system for working at home. I would be like to watch
> > some movies sometimes but I don't know if that's enough:
> > - Pentium II 266 MHz
> > - 196 Megs of ram
> > - graphic card Geforce2 MX
> >
> > Thank you guys.
> >
> > jernej
> >
> >
>
i agree the important component is the hardware acceleration from the graphics
card though the high bitrate divx could be a diffucult task for a 266MHz proccesor
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