On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:34:33 -0400 Miark disseminated the following: > I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB > RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro) > I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but > nothing seems to work. Is 400 MHz just too little power?
I think it depends a lot on your video card/chipset. You cannot play DVD's at all without hardware acceleration, IIRC, no matter your system resources (though yours are definitely on the low end anyhow). -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:58:17 up 47 days, 20:05, 7 users, load average: 0.11, 0.16, 0.35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The struggle between people and capital is now an epic struggle between life and death." -- Vandana Shiva, World Social Forum, January 16, 2004
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