No, no MPEG2 acceleration on this machine. No DVD drive
either. Although, I do remember shopping for a laptop in 1998 and
a 400Mhz PII being recommnded for software DVD playback. <br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick</b> <<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 17/12/05, Chris Ribe <<a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com">chrisribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I have a PII 450 w/ a 100Mhz FSB that I used as a frontend with KnoppMyth<br>> last year. It couldn't handle 720x480 MPEG2, but it could get by 512x320 or
<br>> so. (I forget the exact resolution I was using).<br>><br><br>Chris,<br><br>Did your video card offer any MPEG2 acceleration features, or was this<br>mostly CPU-work? I think I remember an old AMD K6/3-400 being able to
<br>play DVD, but I could be imagining it (it was a while ago)!<br><br>Nick<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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