From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 22:39:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F27861065677 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:39:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f12.google.com (mail-gx0-f12.google.com [209.85.217.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A24718FC14 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:39:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: by gxk5 with SMTP id 5so2012gxk.19 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:39:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; bh=guqVzOHlp5MrvUqc1o3BXdKNLUzcv7dkbp6Hz/sijek=; b=M6vHy4at7Kwsb9bv3sx4ejR2vHjMIOsKBX+v9YRZOOr6M3jA4U3ATrtYf8niOismfO 7HJswWEGf4yyJFDnMkzLr23og+GqtBOLaz19rNyNFT/fnWyUEeAMqWwnJ+g/H/13ML7a NBZSXEKF4xMJq1Uo7wQddmmSBpxKAhLvaPRl0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=iRd5C4qWeOitQ+eIPurJo6UzSkaAl19O9eptuJCoMBYw9uK87AXEUvlxW+rEzauIda hRPOvWMl5CrFvSgDslvaDJNi9ptpR/ChCkSPRmMRVuhGxxiCfLdraI6w/XTPZJIgGZHs GGVJrx5eDey5LNQad/IBwpjnr9A7KzoUgeT24= Received: by 10.90.91.9 with SMTP id o9mr275845agb.117.1227045997553; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:06:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.148? (adsl-074-245-053-043.sip.jax.bellsouth.net [74.245.53.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p60sm7822180hsa.5.2008.11.18.14.06.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:06:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49233C74.9040401@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:06:44 -0500 From: michael User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andrew clarke References: <000e01c94999$a7532dc0$f5f98940$@com> <20081118215409.GA32945@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20081118215409.GA32945@ozzmosis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Media Center X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:39:58 -0000 andrew clarke wrote: > On Tue 2008-11-18 11:21:02 UTC-0500, Gary Hartl (ghartl@gmail.com) wrote: > > >> I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. >> >> I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or >> something like that feeding to my tv. >> > > 550 MHz will be a bit slow for playing DivX/XviD movies, especially if > they're high definition (beyond 640x480 approx). Presumably Windows > is installed on it at the moment, so you can give the Windows version > of VLC a test run. > > The RAM & HDD specs are fine. Provided the laptop's integrated video > and networking is supported, you should be good to go. > Actually, an AMD k6-2 450 will play over 720 resolution divx. mplayer with a proper cache setting and enough ram helps massively. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >