[Mplayer-users] Minimum hardware

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Hi I have a plan to build a dedicated multimedia plyer and I have just
> started playing around with mplayer and it seems to fit my needs.
> 
> I have trouble playing divx films on my setup and before going through
> it all I thought I'd ask the list for some help and pointer.
> 
> My set up includes a PII 450 and a voodoo3 card I have previously
> used the same CPU but with a G400 card with Win98. On my Win98 
> system I had no problems playing the divx'es but on my new Linux
> setup I have framedrops to point that it impossible to watch.
> Right now I'm using SDL to display. So my questions are basically.
> Is a PII 450 fast enough?
it's at boundary... but should be ok if you have good vga card.

> Is the voodoo3 a good enough card?
yes.

> Is SDL the best choice on the voodoo3?
no! install latest Xfree 4.x (from CVS, release versions has broken tdfx
drivers) and use -vo xv.

> Is the G400 better?
much better. mplayer has special driver for g400 cards.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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