mini-ITX graphics woes

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:14:32PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> Yup, I've got all of those. gcc knows about the c3 processor. ALSA works
> just fine. It's just that the graphics can keep up with maybe one frame
> in ten from a DVD ...
> 
> I just checked on a mini-ITX specialist board. They said I was getting

In my experience, a 400MHz P2 can do DVD playback IFF the video card has
xvideo acceleration support so that it can handle the YUV decoding in
hardware (which is a major cpu load of playing most video on a
computer).  If your video card does not do that, you probably need
around 1 to 1.5GHz to do the job reliably.  So to use that board you
probably have to add either a video card that support xvideo in X or one
that actually has supported mpeg2 decoding.

Lennart Sorensen
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