From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 21:15:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8525C16A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C5C43FD7 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsduser@comcast.net) Received: from comcast.net (12-225-143-41.client.attbi.com[12.225.143.41]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <2003120105153401500pncnge> (Authid: animotions); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 05:15:34 +0000 Message-ID: <3FCACED6.4060604@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:17:10 -0800 From: K Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3FCAB9B9.9040102@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <3FCAB9B9.9040102@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 100 MHz pentium: can that play avi-file movies? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:15:38 -0000 Rob wrote: > > > Hi, > > 100 MHz pentium with up-to-date FreeBSD-stable; > would that allow me to play avi-file movies with mplayer > or equivalent media player? > > Videocard is a Riva TNT2 with 16 Mb. > > Thanks, > Rob. To many unknowns. I have a dual p200 with around 196 meg of ram and the usual services running and I would get coughs and sputters on and off. Also mplayer will let you know if your system is slow when you play it. If it does work unacceptably then maybe shutdown some services, use a window manager that uses low resources. You might be able to use the svga (or what ever that driver is called) driver so that you don't have to use X. Another tip might be to burn the AVI to CD or a file system that is not part of the primary HD so that you don't have bottle necks with swap files and other stuffs during the IO process. Oh, and I have a Riva TNT with maybe 16 meg of RAM.