On Sat 31 May 2014 at 09:31:35 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > What work has it done? It needs 2.5 GB of disk space and has two or > > three WM's and a couple of file managers. Plus libreoffice. I think > > AntiX is quite a nice distro but do you need all of this to play a > > video? > > It's a bit more than just playing videos; it's a set of related tools > for managing them, controlling playback remotely, etc. Not huge, and > I'm sure I could create a massively cut-down system (is it possible to > run VLC on top of X without a window manager??) and fit the same tasks
Yes ; all it needs is the line 'vlc' in ~/.xsession. > into far less memory and a far less powerful CPU, but that would > require a lot more fiddling. I'm not an expert with video playback but I think throwing more RAM at a machine with an inadequate CPU/video card combination generally gains very little and isn't worth the fiddling. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/31052014045332.f6bd1dcf1...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
