Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:06:44 -0500 From: michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Media Center Message-ID: <49233C74.9040401@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081118215409.GA32945@ozzmosis.com> References: <000e01c94999$a7532dc0$f5f98940$@com> <20081118215409.GA32945@ozzmosis.com>
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andrew clarke wrote: > 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. > Actually, an AMD k6-2 450 will play over 720 resolution divx. mplayer with a proper cache setting and enough ram helps massively. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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