Minimal hw config for h264 720p ? (was: [Mplayer-users]playing HD video)

Tue Jan 30 20:37:33 CET 2007

On Tuesday, 30 January 2007 at 20:34, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> "kofboy" <kofboy at 163.com> writes:
> > AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ is not enough [for 720p/h264]. CPU load 100%
> > for decode.
> 
> What would be the minimal HW configuration to be able to watch
> 720p/h264 without trouble ? (on Linux)
> 
> I currently have an AMD XP3200, and viewing these kind of video (with
> XV on a radeon 9200) is very difficult: I have to stop all running
> daemons to be able to have "relatively" smooth video.

AMD Sempron64 3000+ is quite enough to play 720p with some cycles to spare.

Regards,
R.

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