100 MHz pentium: can that play avi-file movies?

Miguel Mendez flynn at energyhq.es.eu.org
Mon Dec 1 08:19:04 PST 2003


./dick hoogendijk wrote:
 
> > Videocard is a Riva TNT2 with 16 Mb.
> 
> If you want to *enjoy* the movie in a good resolution and all, the
> answer probably will be "NO, you can't do that"
> 
> You're videocard is not "good enough" for a fast X driver and your
> processor needs an upgrade to at least a P3-300 or up.

Nope, the TNT (aka NV4) can do YUV overlays, that card is more than
enough to handle the video. OTOH, I agree on the need for a faster CPU,
modulo the fact that there has never been a 300Mhz Pentium III :-P

Cheers,
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