On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 01:28 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:15:55 +0200 > Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You'll get skips and stuff yet; a 233 MHz CPU is extremely minimal. But > > generally, yes, for a number of years now non-gamers easily get by for > > quite a long time with their hardware. This in fact is only getting > > better; the power required for games versus year-of-publication seems > > much more non-linear then for non-games meaning that the non-gamer is > > buying a more and more ridiculously overpowered PC every time he > > upgrades -- which then lasts him longer. > > > > Rene. > > > > > > A 600Mhz P3 was sufficient to play DVDs; a 300MHz was also sufficient to play > DVDs, though using ATI's HW assist.
I use my 600Mhz Via C3 to play all kinds of DivX content with mplayer. As long as I run it at nice -20 and use the OSS driver (mplayer's ALSA driver sucks) it works perfectly. I can even download, compile, etc. in the background without dropping frames. Totem/Xine is way too slow though. Lee _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
