mini-ITX graphics woes

[Kevin Cozens]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>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).
>
My old PII 266MHz machine (in Windows at least) is just barely able to 
play DVDs with DMA enabled on the drives. My video card is an ATI All In 
Wonder Pro so no special MPEG decoding H/W here. Under Linux I find that 
the machine isn't quite able to keep up with DVD playback as it does 
under Windows but DVDs are still mostly watchable. A slightly faster CPU 
would be needed for better playback under Linux. Either the Linux 
playback software isn't as optimized as the Windows software or its just 
due to the other background tasks of my Linux machine.

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