Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:54:09 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Gary Hartl <ghartl@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Media Center Message-ID: <20081118215409.GA32945@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <000e01c94999$a7532dc0$f5f98940$@com> References: <000e01c94999$a7532dc0$f5f98940$@com>
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On Tue 2008-11-18 11:21:02 UTC-0500, Gary Hartl (ghartl@gmail.com) wrote: > I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. > > I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or > something like that feeding to my tv. 550 MHz will be a bit slow for playing DivX/XviD movies, especially if they're high definition (beyond 640x480 approx). Presumably Windows is installed on it at the moment, so you can give the Windows version of VLC a test run. The RAM & HDD specs are fine. Provided the laptop's integrated video and networking is supported, you should be good to go.
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