On Sb, 31 mai 14, 09:31:35, Chris Angelico wrote: > > No no, I was thinking more of <1GB as "starved". Even for rescaling > video on the fly (as often happens - the files come at whatever > resolution they're at, and they're all played in full-screen mode),
I'm assuming 640x480 (since you mentioned Video output)? That's not a bid deal. > 1.5GB isn't bad. But if you have just 1GB, or 768MB, or 256MB, or > whatever figure, can you still run a default Debian? How low can you > go, without fiddling around enormously? Debian performs nicely with 512 MB RAM in my experience if the CPU and video card can keep up. > 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 > into far less memory and a far less powerful CPU, but that would > require a lot more fiddling. startx /usr/bin/vlc > Hmm, not sure that default Debian performs as well. My first > Linification of that hardware was with Debian Jessie as of whenever it > was I did it (earlier this year sometime), running Xfce with all the > defaults. Playback, while immensely smoother than it had been under > Windows, still glitched fairly often on largeish files. Now, with > AntiX, the glitching is only on the highest of bit-rates, again with > basically all the defaults, so I'd say there is a performance > difference between the two. What the cause of that difference is, > though, I can't say. Xfce might be a bit much, depending on your processor and video card (you still didn't mention them). LXDE or just plain OpenBox should perform better. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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