<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> On 5/9/06, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:
<br>>><br>>> But I'm still wondering if you can get decent MPEG-4 playback. That<br>>> requires more CPU horsepower than MPEG-2. Unless it can do MPEG-4<br>>> than I'll stick with my MediaMVP.<br>>
<br>> I used to do DivX on my PII 300 Windows PC. I would have thought<br>> 833's would cut it just fine (but I am no expert).<br><br>. Hmmm...<br><br>That's a good data point.<br><br>I have an old Dell PIII 500 Mhz. laptop. Guess I'll just have to try
<br>that and see how it does.<br><br>I am assuming no "help" from the graphics subsystem.</blockquote><div><br>
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I also used to watch divx movies on a PII 300mhz a few years ago under
windows. I haven't tried anything on it recently in Linux, but an
866 should have enough horsepower.<br>
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-Mike<br>
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